Kurt Cobain quotes
Born
February 20, 1967, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.
Died
April 5, 1994 Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation
Musician.
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician who was best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana.
The sun is gone, but I have a light.
– Kurt Cobain
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
– Kurt Cobain
We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.
– Kurt Cobain
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.
– Kurt Cobain
I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.
– Kurt Cobain
Rather be dead than cool.
– Kurt Cobain
I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
– Kurt Cobain
I really miss being able to blend in with people.
– Kurt Cobain
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
– 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 too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.
– Kurt Cobain
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
– Kurt Cobain
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 like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
– Kurt Cobain
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
– Kurt Cobain
If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
– Kurt Cobain
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
– Kurt Cobain
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
– 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’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
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.
– Kurt Cobain
I won’t eat anything green.
– Kurt Cobain
If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
– Kurt Cobain
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’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.
– Kurt Cobain
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.
– Kurt Cobain
I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.
– 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
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
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
– 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
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
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
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.
– Kurt Cobain
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.
– 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 get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
– 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
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
– Kurt Cobain
I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
– Kurt Cobain
I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.
– 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
The worst crime is faking it.
– Kurt Cobain
Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.
– Kurt Cobain
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
– Kurt Cobain
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
– Kurt Cobain
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
– Kurt Cobain
I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.
– Kurt Cobain
I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
– Kurt Cobain
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.
– Kurt Cobain
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
– Kurt Cobain
I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
– Kurt Cobain