Nirvana Quotes



"You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.
I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of
Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia." -Kurt Cobain, 1992

"I was driving and 'Teen Spirit' came on the radio, and I thought 'God,
that really sounds like sh*t!'" -Dave Grohl

"At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate
homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor
for us - leave us the f#ck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our
records." -Kurt

"Our songs have the standard pop format: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo
bad solo. All in all we sound like the Knack and the Bay City Rollers being
molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath." -Kurt, on Nirvana's sound

"Kurt chews bubble gum in his soul." -Courtney on Kurt's song writing

"I'm a walking talking bacterial infection!" -Kurt

"Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to
do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career
before it's too late." -Kurt

"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, not talking to
anybody and looking like he's taking a sh#t." -Dave recounting his first
encounter with Chris and Kurt

"I don't want to be a f#cking spokesperson." -Kurt

"It is better to burn out then fade away " -Kurt

"I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette
than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball." -Kurt

"Look, it's a giant Hollywood cigarette full of all sorts of
nicotine and enough tar to cover a parking lot this size!" -Krist

"Kurt would have been shocked by the lasting impact he's made." -Dave Grohl

"The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it,
pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.." -Kurt

"I had a good marriage, and for that I'm grateful. But since the age of seven
I have become hateful toward all humans in general only because it seems so
easy for people to get along that have empathy." -Kurt

"Dick is short for Richard, and Rich is short for Richard too.
So rich people are dicks" - Dave Grohl

"Even the guys in the safety patrol called me 'faggot'." -Kurt

"Thank you all for coming, you've been a wonderful audience. Have a safe
ride home. Remember not to drink and drive. Remember to vote. Remember not
to jaywalk. Remember not to take drugs while in the company of a minor....
or in front of narcotics officers." - Krist

"There is nothing i like more than pure underground music"-Kurt

"I don't want my daughter to grow up and someday be hassled by kids at
school...I don't want people telling her that her parents were junkies"-Kurt

This is Kurt at a concert... "If you guys throw one more shoe or one more
coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to
be massive feed back for an hour." -Kurt

"Kill 'em all I say." -krist

"vandalism, as beautiful as a rock in a cop's face." -Kurt

"I think I was probably feeling a lot more contradictory a year-and-a-half
ago, because I was blindly fighting and not even knowing what I was
fighting for." -Kurt

" All drugs are a waste of time.They destroy your memory and your self-respect
and everything that goes along with your self-esteem....I've
found they're a waste of time." -Kurt

"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not
afraid of dying.Total peace after death, becoming someone else is
the best hope I've got." -Kurt

42) "All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a
lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a
judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge
anything. That's the lesson I've learned" -Kurt

43) "I knew when I first started taking heroin that it would become boring,
like marijuana, but you still have to do it, it becomes like breathing
air!" -Kurt

44) "We were the chosen rejects, we were the ones who weren't picked
for the sports teams and the ones who liked to smoke cigarettes and listen to
rock. " -Kurt

45) "I wouldn't be surprised if I was voted most likely to kill everyone at
a high school dance" -Kurt

46) "ALL ROCK MUSIC IS GOOD AS LONG AS IT HAS PASSION AND FEELING" -KURT

47) "I love everyone too much which makes me sad" -Kurt

48) "There was just that feeling in the air, no one could quite pinpoint
it, but we knew that we were a part of it, you know" -Kurt

49) "Kurt Cobain was a sweet, gentle, often very funny guy, who had a major
talent for rock and roll. What a shame it is that he could not salvage
anything for himself" -This quote was made by a presenter on the 'MTV
Tribute To Nirvana' documentary

50) "God is Gay."
It was written as vandalism by Kurt and Chris when they were teenagers.

51) "F#ck it, man!" - Dave

52) "We proved that alternative music is a viable commodity" -Krist

53) "A big "f@ck you" to those of you who have the audacity to claim that
I'm so naive and stupid that I would allow myself to be taken advantage of and
manipulated." -Kurt

54) "If you hurt my wife in any way I'll hurt you." -Kurt

55) "I knew that having a child I'd be overwhelmed and it's true... I can't
tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Francis. Holding
my baby is the best drug in the world." -Kurt

56) "What are they tuning? A harp? I thought we were a big rich rock band.
We should have a bunch of extra guitars." --Kurt

57) "I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to
regain the enthusiasm I once had as a child "- Kurt

58) "I know that most of you out there like us, understand what we're trying to say,
but as for the rest of you, I F#CKING HATE YOU!! "- Kurt

59) "Life is what you make of it, it's your crossword puzzle" -Kurt

60) "I'm glad it's something new, I guess people just got tired of Warrent " -Kurt

61) "Abort Christ!" -Kurt

62) "Music is first, lyrics are secondary." -Kurt

63) "Jimmy crapped corn and I don't care.....alright." -Krist

64) "I'm changing my name to numchuck b#tch." -Kurt

65) "My name is Kurt and I sing and play the guitar and I'm a walking, talking
bacterial infection." -Kurt

66) "We're just a bar band, that's all we are." -Kurt

67) "We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves." -Kurt

68) "Grunge, isn't that some gross shade of greenish orange?" -Kurt

69) "Flower sniffin, kitty pettin, baby kissin, Corporate rock whores." -Krist

70) "In Aberdeen, I hated my friends with a passion, because they were idiots." -Kurt

71) "Shut up" -Kurt

72) "I think it (making music) becomes less pleasurable and satisfying
when I think of it in terms of my "job." Writing is the one part that is not a job,
it's expression. Photo shoots, interviews...that's the real job part." -Kurt

73) "So all of my comments tonight are out of a book: How to be Witty at Parties." -Chris

74) "I just want you people to know that Courtney Love, lead singer of the sensational pop
group Hole, is the best f*ck in the world." -Kurt

75) Interviewer asks Dave: "So why did you go to school anyway?"
Dave's reply: "For lunch!"

76) "Nirvana falls off the flower laughing" -Kurt

77) Interviewer: "How would you define the music of Nirvana?"
Kurt: "Punk rock, pop rock, hard pop rock."
Krist: "Hard pop rocks on the tip of your tongue, crickling and crackling."

78) "I must be a complete Narcissist, I only appreciate things once they're gone" -Kurt

79) "If your a sexist, racist, homophobe or basically an arsehole don't buy this CD,
I don't care if you like me, I hate you!" -Kurt

80) Kurt's first poem:(he wrote it when he was 9)
i hate mum,
i hate dad,
dad hates mum,
mum hates dad,
it just wants to make u feel so sad.

81) "I had a really happy childhood until I was nine, then it was a classic
case of divorce" -Kurt
82) "I didn't screw it up, did I?" -Kurt

83) "Am I going to do this by myself?" -Kurt

84) "These people are just going to have to wait"-Kurt

85) "Punk rock should mean freedom, playing whatever you want,
As sloppy as you want as long as it's good and it has passion"-Kurt

86) "Our music is naive, purposely naive" -Kurt

87) "I'll write a couple of sincere lines then kind of slag them off"
-Kurt describing how he writes Nirvana's songs

88) "Strap on yr. geetars" -Kurt

89) "We were staying in this house in Laurel Canyon with three mud-wrestling
girls for a week-and-a-half." --Dave

90) "I ate about 600 of them in a day, and I had an extreme feeling of beauty.
Those Mentos really work!" --Dave

91) "One day, Dave and I were sitting around watching a documentary on babies
being born underwater." --Kurt

92) "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 who 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..."
-Dave

93) "My father said this to me - "I know why you guys've sold so many
records..the video shows a buncha kids trashing a gymnasium!" and I mean
..that sorta works like uh, "Nirvana! Spokesmen of the lost generation!
They're telling you to go out and destroy your local gymnasium!" I don't
really, I don't see it that way, I mean, like, I don't want to hold a
responsibility of being a spokesman for anything! I can barely hold my own! I
guess it's flattering, and I guess it's great that it acts like sorta, gives
people a feeling of sorta like breaking out, and telling um, anyone and
anything just to fuck off!" --Dave

94) "Whatever, in like, a month or two, we were out in the backyard shooting
stuff with BB guns, and breaking windows at the lottery building across the
street. It was fun, it was great, that apartment was great." --Dave

95) "As far as getting in the top 10 is concerned we don't care at all we
know it won't happen"-Kurt

96) "We're going on tour this year and we're gonna have a whole new set
with whole new songs so that we don't ever have to play Smells Like
Teen Spirit again. I mean it's a great song but for many people it's
like the only Nirvana song and that's upsetting"-Kris and Dave

97) "I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of
people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused
as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. I don't want to be a f@cking spokesperson." -Kurt

98) "Anti, let me repeat that, Anti-rape song" -Kurt

99) "Guns 'n' f***ing Roses, Wembley f***ing Stadium, Sold f***ing Out, BIG
F***ING DEAL!!!" -Dave

100) "People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio.
I don't know, I don't listen to the radio"-Kurt

101) "Our music has a lot of energy to it and in a smaller place energy
translates better" -Dave

102) "Just take it easy, have a little bit of respect. We all sh*t." -Kurt

103) "Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world." -Kurt

104) "I'm here to impeach a president and kill a soap opera star"- Krist

105) "Zits are beauty marks"- Kurt

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