Kurt Donald Cobain Quotes on Culture
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Same thing happened in the Punk Movement in the late 70's. It's like, major labels were signing punk bands right after the band's first gig, y'know, a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it's a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.
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With the lights out, it's less dangerous Here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid, and contagious Here we are now, entertain us.
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Load up on guns, and bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to pretend, she's over-bored and self-assured, I know I know, a dirty word.
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He's the one Who likes all the pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means.
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What else could I say. Everyone is gay.
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We're so trendy, we can't even escape ourselves. (Unknown)
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I hate having people feed me fine French meals when all I want is macaroni and cheese
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. (1990)
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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. (1991)
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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. (1992)
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We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone. (1992)
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. (1992)
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Guns N' Roses are a shitty band that makes shitty music. (1992)
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I just can't believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it. (1992)
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All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. But I'm not going to go around preaching against [them]. (1992)
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I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia. (1992)
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Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I'm going to start playing basketball. (1993)
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If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) (1993)
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I just think there's a breed of people who honestly like music. And there aren't very many of 'em, really. Those are the people who usually become musicians. It doesn't really matter what environment you grow up in. It's just some environments are more restrictive than others. (1994)
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Hello, we're major label corporate rock sell outs. (04/17/91 at the O.K. Hotel, Seattle, Washington)
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There is plenty of Huhnerfleisch in the Kuhlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge) (08/27/91 at Bremen, Germany)
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Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs! (12/02/91 at Newcastle, UK)
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What's the matter with all you people at the back, did you come here to see Gloria Estefan? (11/27/93 at AT&T Bayfront Park Amphitheater, Miami, Florida)
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OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo! (12/31/93 at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California)
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This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me. (01/07/94 at Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, Washington)
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It's better to burn out than to fade away.
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.
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In his way, he was the closest equivalent this decade and this generation of rock fans had to a John Lennon, and I don't make that comparison easily or impulsively.
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I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking, 'God, this music is nuclear', This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around. Nirvana made everything else look silly.
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In 1991 there was a kind of shift in rock music in America - it was shifting away from all the hair bands in LA. And with Kurt Cobain you felt you were connecting to the real person, not to a perception of who he was - you were not connecting to an image or a manufactured cut-out. You felt that between you and him there was nothing; it was heart-to-heart. There are very few people who have that ability. I never met him but our guitarist Kirk Hammett had a relationship with him. We were doing this tour with Guns N' Roses in the US in 1992 and we wanted Nirvana to come out and join us. Kirk asked Kurt, but while Cobain said he would play with Metallica anywhere in the world, at any time, on any stage, he would not step up on the same stage as Guns N' Roses - obviously he felt that Axl was the antithesis to what he was. As I said, I never met Kurt, and he's probably the only guy in rock'n'roll that I have never met that I really wanted to - other than Bon Scott maybe. What a sad thing we can't hear the fourth Nirvana album. It would have been so great to be able to see how that would have evolved.
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Most kings get driven so insane that they try to hit the same vein Kurt Cobain did
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I remember the first time I saw him. I was 14 years old. I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video and instantly fell in love with him, even though I couldn't see his face. I just wanted to see his face so much. After weeks of finding out anything I could about Nirvana, I saw his face - and he had a face like an angel. I loved him. He was my platonic love.
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I only met Kurt once...I was touched by him. He seemed a little shell shocked as though he felt yet another show might drop at any time.
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You know, I always thought I'd go first. I don't know why I thought that, it just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis - far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
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I meet him a few times. He was an pretty cool guy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He had a wonderful balance of raw, dangerous anger, but also he was this delicate, fun person...He was brilliant, but he played dumb. And you know, Kurt was funny as shit.
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Kurt chewed bubblegum in his soul.
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Kurt Cobain was one of the best of our time
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I dont think there's any better expression for that era (the 90s) then Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
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[He] was very talented, but he was passive-aggressive, kind of a whiny white guy, basically.
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I think Kurt was one of the deepest thinkers we've had in popular music over the last 20 years and if anyone deserves to have his songs dwelled upon it's him.
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I mourn for Kurt. A once beautiful, then pathetic, lost and heroically stupid boy.
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He really, really inspired me. He was so great. Wonderful. One of the best, but more than that. Kurt was one of the absolute best of all time for me.
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I don't know why everyone on earth felt so close to that guy; he was beloved and endearing and inoffensive in some weird way. For all his screaming and all of his darkness, he was just lovable.
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It's a shame about your future It's a crime about your past.
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They all stand straight and swing to the side No heads, but they feet still glide Take a step back, twist and dive I even seen Kurt Cobain get live
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He rocked the United States by flying all over the country and playing that rock and roll He is a good singer He is my rock star
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Too late, He sleeps with angels Too soon, He's always on someone's mind.
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Kurt Cobain's rich as fuck he's buried in the ground
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Thanks to Elvis and Kurt Cobain the world will never be the same
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Kurt Cobain, we was good friends Ozzy Osbourne too.
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I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died And the night Jeff Buckley died And the night Kurt Cobain died And the night John Lennon died.
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What of Kurt Cobain, will his presence still remain?
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A whole generation of kids blowin' out their fuckin' brains to this Kurt Cobain music
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Way out in Seattle Young Kurt Cobain Snuck out to the greenhouse Put a bullet in his brain.
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Keep them high like Kurt Cobain.
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Yeah the whole byrd gangs in here like Kurt Cobain was here.
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Disturbed by the fame Just like Kurt Cobain.
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Kurt Cobain reincarnated Sighs and licks his face.
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I'll spend my days with J.F.K., Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, and Lawrence Welk, And Kurt Cobain, Kojak, Mark Twain and Jimi Hendrix's poltergeist.
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I'll finish with a bang, like in Cobain's biography
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Maybe if I put a bullet in my brain They'd remember me like Kurt Cobain And the parasites on MTV Would wipe their eyes and act like they knew me
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My favorite color is red, like the blood shed from Kurt Cobain's head, when he shot himself dead
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And they told me The times have changed Cause' our parents had Hendrix, Janis and Jim But what about River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain.
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So I watched pay per view and polished my shoes and my gun