Kurt Cobain Quotes

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I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

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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.

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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.

Kurt Cobain

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

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

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I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

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

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

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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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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.

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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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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.

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I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

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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.

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We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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I really haven‘t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

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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.

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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 bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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I never listen to ‘Nevermind.’ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

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We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

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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.

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

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The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The worst crime is faking it.

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