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Krist Novoselic Quotes:

Krist Novoselic quotes

Ocupation: Musician

Life: b. May 16, 1965

Birthday: May 16

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If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mean, Guitar, Soul

quote if you ve got a guitar and a lot of soul just bang something out and mean it you re krist novoselic Quotes

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Trends

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

source: - Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.

Topics: Song, Guitar, Years

I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.

source: - Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.

Topics: Tired, Two, Giving, Throwing Things

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.

Topics: Party, Thinking, Culture

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

source: - Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.

Topics: Feelings, Kind, Intangible

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

source: - Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Trying, Realize Things

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Quiet

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

Topics: Player, Guitar, Dimes

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Topics: Diversity, Trying

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

Topics: Song, Player, Rocks

No band is special, no player royalty.

Topics: Player, Special, Band

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Topics: Teacher

Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

Topics: Lasts, Remember, Site

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.

Topics: Perfect, Passionate, Intense

Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.

Topics: Fun, Sunshine, Cake

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

Topics: Mainstream, Bigs, Overwhelming, Counterculture

I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.

Topics: Thinking, Band, Really Happy

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Topics: Singing, Songwriting

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Topics: Sentimental, Poet, Raised, Theodore, Sentimental Value

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

Topics: Sweet, Caring, Remember

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

Topics: Sweet, Today, Stills

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

Topics: Crazy, Cities, Dots, Seattle

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings — he even did a sculpture for me — it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

Topics: Beautiful, Art, Player

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

source: - "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

Topics: Beautiful, Art, Player

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

source: - "How Kurt Cobain's Friends, Family & Fellow Musicians Reacted to His Death: 20 Quotes" by Dan Reilly, www.billboard.com. April 5, 2014.

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

Topics: Dark, Perception, Cobain, Baloney

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

source: - "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

Topics: Artistic Vision

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