DAVE'S QUOTES
"All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I
took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work
It did"
"The name of our band is pronounced Nir-vah-nah
not Nir-va-na"
(on Krist)
"The biggest guy I had ever seen and the
scrawniest guy I had ever seen"
"Y'know, maybe one percent of the people
who are listening to Nevermind, that ever
bought Nevermind, maybe not one percent,
but I'm just saying that this, um, a small
minority of people that are listening to our
record now, know about punk rock. A lot of
people don't know about punk rock..They think
about punk rock and they think of that Quincy
episode where the guy threw the brick off the
building, and..."
"I ate about 600 of them a day and I had
a feeling of extreme beauty. Those mentos
really work!"
"I'ts not some technical, masturbatory,
see-what-I-can-do record"
"Our music has a lot of energy to it, and
in a smaller place, energy translates better
"I was driving and "Teen Spirit" came on the
radio and I thought, God, that really sounds
like shit!"
"I didn't think Nevermind would be that much
different to Bleach, just a progression"
"Dick is short for Richard, and Rich is short
for Richard too, so Rich people are dicks"
(on the teen spirit video)
"So many people think it's the epitome of this
rebellious high school vibe"
(After seeing Krist and Kurt for the first time)
"There was this guy who was about six foot seven,
really huge. He's telling a story and he's really
loud and obnoxious and jumping around. Then there's
this other tiny weasel of a guy, sitting in a corner
and not talking to anybody, and looking like he's
taking a shit"
"Kurt would have been shocked by the lasting impact
he's made"
"I don't think any of us would be here if it
was not for kurt Cobain"
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