Words matter. These are the best Kurt Cobain Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The sun is gone, but I have a light.
I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
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.
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
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.
I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.
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.
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.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
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.
Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
The worst crime is faking it.
I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.
I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
Rather be dead than cool.
I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Looking back on the production of ‘Nevermind,’ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
I never listen to ‘Nevermind.’ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.
I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I’ve only owned two of them.
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
