12 Kurt Donald Cobain Quotes on Creativity

Kurt Donald Cobain quotes on creativity

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.

13. I'm so happy 'Cause today I found my friends They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay 'Cause so are you.

28. I take pride as the king of illiterature.

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

54. Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

107. I think one of the reasons so many people connected to him is they could tell his music was really pure and instinctual.

131. [If he] applied the same brain to his music that he applied to his drug-infested life, its reasonable to think that his music may not have made much sense either.

139. He was a genius.

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

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

169. And so I parallel the brains of Cobain.

179. A daily dose of eMpTyV Will flush your mind right down the drain Shannon Hoon and Kurt Cobain, Make yourself a household name