Kurt Cobain famous quotes

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Dream #Simple Life #Want

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Teenage #Independent #Bridges

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Music #Truth #Challenges

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

#Cute #Girl #People

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Karma #Mean #Poop

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
-- Kurt Cobain

#Inspirational #Being Yourself #Individuality

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Feelings #Okay #Fishes

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

#Validation #People #Advice

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

#Jail #Rocks #Rock And Roll

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Teaching #Men #Trying

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Inspirational #Gay #Lgbt

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

#Stars #Rocks #Mail

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

#Gay #Trying #Becoming

The sun is gone, but I have a light.
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#Light #Gone #Sun

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Attitude #Different #Heavy Metal

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Thank You #Gratitude #Appreciation

Believe everything you read
-- Kurt Cobain

#Believe

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

#Rap #Rocks #Punk

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
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#Thinking #People #Guy

The worst crime is faking it.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Music #Fake People #Jazz

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Stupidity #Teens #Want

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Guitar #Talking #Play

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.
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#Fun #Thinking #Dumb

Once you fall in love... It's different.
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#Falling In Love #Fall #Different

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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#Needs #Inspired

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Art #Real #Gay

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Beautiful #Rocks #Faces

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

#Morning #Bird #Speak

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
-- Kurt Cobain

#People #Labels #Firsts

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
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#Thinking #Narcissistic #Care

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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#Complaining #Truthful

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

#Strong #Opinion #Truthful

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

#Gun #Drug

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

#Divorce #Childhood #Fatherhood

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

#Friendship #Needs #Firsts

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

#Pain #Mean #Rocks

Rather be dead than cool.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Hipster #Truthful

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.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Stars #Rocks #Might

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

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Knowing

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

#Reality #Answers #Opinion

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Racist #Homophobes #Bother

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Music #Complaining #Want

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

#Courage #Honesty #Fear

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Men #Average #Problem

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

#Mother #Artist #Age

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
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#Personality #Use #Pieces

The world sucks, people are not true
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#People #World

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
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#Oh Well #Wells #Nevermind

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

#Pain #Two #Irritation

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

#Pixies #Band #Firsts

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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#Thinking #Truthful #Boring

I'm not like them But I can pretend
-- Kurt Cobain

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Mean #Needs #Want

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Funny #Life #Halloween

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.
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#Entertainment #Music Is

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Passion #Mean #Rocks

It's better to burn out than fade away.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Death #Burn Out

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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#Enemy #Truthful

The future of rock belongs to women.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Rocks

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Waste #Wasting Time #Life Is

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
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#Friendship #Happiness #Today

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
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#Eye #Soul #Saws

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

#Tired #People #Sake

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Years #Firsts #Seven

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

#Mean #Beer #Ideas

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

#Taken #Wish #Music Business

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.
-- Kurt Cobain

#Flower