13 Kurt Donald Cobain Quotes on Art

Kurt Donald Cobain quotes on art

4. Music comes first. Lyrics are secondary... Most of my lyrics are contradictions. I'll write a few sincere lines and then I'll have to make fun of it. I don't like to make it too obvious because if it is too obvious it gets really stale. You shouldn't be in people's faces 100% all the time. We don't mean to be really cryptic or mysterious but I just think that lyrics that are different and weird and spacey paint a nice picture. It's just the way I like art.

53. Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

87. If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) (1993)

114. Most kings get driven so insane that they try to hit the same vein Kurt Cobain did

120. In twenty years from now, when people will look back at the 90's, they wont remember the commercial giants like Ace of Base or Backstreet Boys, they will remember the artistic bands and artists like Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.

121. I think one of Kurt's strengths was his simplicity. He knew how to write really catchy songs that said a lot without doing too much.

122. The only person I have any respect for as a songwriter over the last 10 years is Kurt Cobain. He was the perfect cross between Lennon and McCartney...but he was a miserable fuck at the same time.

128. Rage and aggression were elements for Kurt to play with as an artist, but he was profoundly gentle and intelligent.

146. Don't feel like home. He's a little out And all this words elope. There's nothing like your poem A scratching voice all alone. There's nothing like your baritone It's nothing as it seems. The little that he needs. It's home The little that he sees is nothing he concedes. It's home

149. First time I saw you, You were sitting backstage in a dress A perfect mess.

155. He needs a quiet room With a lock to keep him in It's just a quiet room And he's there He plays an old guitar With a coin found by the phone It was his friends guitar That he played He's never been in love But he knows just what love is He says nevermind And no-one speaks

173. Kurt Cobain, he never had a chance, you know. Incurable romantics never do.

183. Kurt Cobain was so young Sad to see this poet's gone.