Kurt Cobain: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.”

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”

“I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.”

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I’m worse at what I do best.”

“I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.”

“And if you save yourself
You will make him happy.”

“I found it hard,
It was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, never mind.”

“What else could I write, I don't have the right.”

“I think they’ll use sounds and tones and music and use it in their virtual reality machines. And just listen to it that way and get the same emotions from it. And then go to a party. There’ll be a virtual reality machine there with a whole bunch of headphones and if you wanna talk to people and listen to the virtual reality machine you can do that and go into the other bedroom and fuck and drink and… but actually I think virtual reality machines will get you high. Technology will be that good. And then there’ll be like virtual reality junkies lying there dead on their couch from OD’ing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Congratulations, you have won
It's a year's subscription of bad puns.”

“They're claiming that [the grunge bands] finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? …I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?”

“Zits are beauty marks.”

“In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.”

“OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo!”