Quotes & Sayings About Cobain

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice. — Kurt Cobain

I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of. — Frances Bean Cobain

I'll be the first to admit we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack — Kurt Cobain

Hey, Sethy! If I could bottle and sell the way I'm feeling right now, I think I'd make enough money to buy Kurt Cobain's soul back from the devil
-Kaye — Charlie Fey

Friends are nothing but a known enemy — Kurt Cobain

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred, or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditability. — Kurt Cobain

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

I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to. — Theresa Wayman

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

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain. — St. Vincent

Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all. — Kurt Cobain

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

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that. — Pete Wentz

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

116. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably. — 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

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. — Kurt Cobain

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man. — Kurt Cobain

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell. — Kurt Cobain

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. — Chuck Palahniuk

Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas. — Bobcat Goldthwait

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something. — 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

None of you will ever know what I am thinking. — Kurt Cobain

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ... — Christina Westover

I hate myself, and I want to die — 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

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. — Krist Novoselic

I don't care what you think unless it is about me. — 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

The sun is gone, but I have a light. — Kurt Cobain

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs. — Kurt Cobain

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll. — Kurt Cobain

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. — Kurt Cobain

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

Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic. — Kurt Cobain

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing. — Frances Bean Cobain

If you read, you'll judge. — Kurt Cobain

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

The world sucks, people are not true — Kurt Cobain

I feel compelled to say fuck you fuck you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you'll ever know. So again I say fuck you although this phrase has totally lost its meaning. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU. — Kurt Cobain

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

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't — Kurt Cobain

You can't buy happiness — 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

You are doing exactly what your father would have done. — Frances Bean Cobain

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent. — Frances Bean Cobain

He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can't go wrong, because you can't make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn't matter that other people loved him; he simply didn't love himself enough. — Charles R. Cross

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

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

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain? — Jeff Ross

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. — 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

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years. — 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

The late Curt Cobain captured the attitude of today's culture with the line, "Here we are; now entertain us." I believe that, unfortunately, many Christians have made Cobain's line the refrain of their friendships.
In my opinion, our cultural obsession with entertainment is really just an expression of selfishness. The focus in entertainment is not producing something useful for the benefit of others but consuming something for the pleasure of self. And a friendship based on this self-serving, pleasure-seeking mind-set can easily slip into a similarly self-serving romantic relationship that meets the needs of the moment.
But when we shift our relationship orientation from entertainment to service, our friendships move from a focus on ourselves to a focus on the people we can serve. And here's the punch line: In service we find true friendship. In service we can know our friends in a deeper way than ever before. — Joshua Harris

Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain

The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock 'n' roll icon who couldn't handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent's child. — Kurt St. Thomas

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

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than ... is where it all comes from. — Zachary Cole Smith

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it. — Kurt Cobain

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem. — Kurt Cobain

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead. — Kurt Cobain

One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him. — Brett Morgen

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo. — Kurt Cobain

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean. — Kurt Cobain

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger

I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy ... — Kurt Cobain

I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed. — Kurt Cobain

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory. I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix. — Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool. — Kurt Cobain

Load up our guns
Bring your friends
It's fun to lose
and to pretend — Kurt Cobain

I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could. — Brett Morgen

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. — Kurt Cobain

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

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music — Kurt Cobain

Zits are beauty marks. — Kurt Cobain

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me. — Kurt Cobain

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

I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away. — Kurt Cobain

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. — 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 am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes. — Kurt Cobain

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there. — Rosanna Arquette

all i want...is mac and cheese — Kurt Cobain

In the sun I feel as one. — Kurt Cobain

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family. — Brett Morgen

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. — Kurt Cobain

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. — Kurt Cobain

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was. — Kurt Cobain

Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers. — Ian Astbury

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point. — Amanda Palmer

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn't want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it's cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there's a hell, they'll go there. — Kurt Cobain

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone. — Christina Westover

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it. — Kurt Cobain

Walk down any sidewalk in any city and eventually you'll find a flower growing out of a crack in the concrete, tenaciously grasping for life, barely enough earth for it to clench hold of. This little flower has seeded, sprouted, and blossomed, despite thousands of feet walking over and around it every day. This flower is a survivor, thriving better than if it were in my Aunt Tilda's fucking backyard garden with her fussing over it day and night and giving it all the goddamned care she thought it needed. Yeah, eventually, some careless asshole's gonna trample and kill that flower, but another one's gonna replace it. [...] I'll always believe in you, Raeburn. You just have to find another crack in the sidewalk and blossom. Don't be another Kurt Cobain. Don't give up. People need you. — Pete Conrad

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. — Kurt Cobain

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