Kurt Cobain Quotes & Sayings

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music. — Kurt Cobain

Friends are nothing but a known enemy — Kurt Cobain

The worst crime is faking it — Kurt Cobain

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot! — Kurt Cobain

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain

I really miss being able to blend in with people. — Kurt Cobain

Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. — Kurt Cobain

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them. — Kurt Cobain

A friend is nothing but a known enemy. — Kurt Cobain

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. — Kurt Cobain

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. — Kurt Cobain

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 Cobain

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath. — Kurt Cobain

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling. — Kurt Cobain

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. — Kurt Cobain

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. — Kurt Cobain

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality. — Kurt Cobain

Once you fall in love ... It's different. — Kurt Cobain

And I swear that I don't have a gun. — Kurt Cobain

She eyes me like a pisces. — Kurt Cobain

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. — Kurt Cobain

I'm on my time with everyone. — Kurt Cobain

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity. — Kurt Cobain

What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc. — Kurt Cobain

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite. — Kurt Cobain

91. Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you. — Kurt Cobain

Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other and tend to their home repairs and children while never missing their true mission. To scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain

You create attention to attract attention. — Kurt Cobain

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. — Kurt Cobain

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had — Kurt Cobain

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker ... better to burn out than to fade away. — Kurt Cobain

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle. — Kurt Cobain

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance. — Kurt Cobain

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well. — Kurt Cobain

I don't want to be a spokesperson. — Kurt Cobain

Nobody dies a virgin...life fucks us — Kurt Cobain

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music. — Kurt Cobain

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face. — Kurt Cobain

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. — Kurt Cobain

Music is first, lyrics are secondary. — Kurt Cobain

196. "Look on the bright side, suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
Protector of the kennel
Ecto-plasma, Ecto-skeletal
Obituary birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery!" ~ — Kurt Cobain

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer. — Kurt Cobain

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music. — Kurt Cobain

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form. — Kurt Cobain

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. — Kurt Cobain

Peace,love,empathy — Kurt Cobain

I'm worse at what I do best. — Kurt Cobain

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'. — Kurt Cobain

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not, — Kurt Cobain

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually — Kurt Cobain

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well. — Kurt Cobain

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion. — Kurt Cobain

yeah, you can't buy happiness — Kurt Cobain

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art. — Kurt Cobain

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands. — Kurt Cobain

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion. — Kurt Cobain

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something. — Kurt Cobain

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded. — Kurt Cobain

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came — Kurt Cobain

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile. — Kurt Cobain

Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs! — Kurt Cobain

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day. — Kurt Cobain

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 Cobain

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. — Kurt Cobain

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me. — Kurt Cobain

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good. — Kurt Cobain

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there. — Kurt Cobain

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird. — Kurt Cobain

I'm not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I'm having the best time of my life! — Kurt Cobain

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain

I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy. — Kurt Cobain

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. — Kurt Cobain

Don't expect me to die for you. — Kurt Cobain

You can't buy happiness — Kurt Cobain

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions, — Kurt Cobain

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time! — Kurt Cobain

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. — Kurt Cobain

I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals — Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool. — Kurt Cobain

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. — Kurt Cobain

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. — Kurt Cobain

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. — Kurt Cobain

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. — Kurt Cobain

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

Forever in debt to your priceless advice. — Kurt Cobain

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before. — Kurt Cobain

I have very bad posture. — Kurt Cobain

And I swear that I don't have a gun ... no I don't have a gun — Kurt Cobain

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. — Kurt Cobain

There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. — Kurt Cobain

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd. — Kurt Cobain

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday. — Kurt Cobain

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl. — Kurt Cobain

No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth
fueled by passion.A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age,fuckin cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes,they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special! — Kurt Cobain

Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. — Kurt Cobain

Here we are now, entertain us. — Kurt Cobain

Married, Married, Married!
Buried!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah — Kurt Cobain

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you. — Kurt Cobain

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. — Kurt Cobain