Kurt Cobain Song Quotes & Sayings

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

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

You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote. — Seth Avett

In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force. — Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me. — 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

We were on our way to the colmado for an errand. — Junot Diaz

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions. — Courtney Love

Again he trailed off into ominous silence. — Terry Brooks

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

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. — Joan Rivers

I am the most jealous boy in the world, when I'm with my girlfriend. I always kiss her so that the other guys know she's mine — Zayn Malik

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy. — David Sheff

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes. — 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

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it. — Anthony DeCurtis

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. — Duke Ellington

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up. — Jon Stewart

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje