Kurt Cobain Quotes

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158 Quotes to Inspire and Challenge with Profound Words

“I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.”

“What's the matter with all you people at the back, did you come here to see Gloria Estefan?”

“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”

“I need you around
To remind me what not to become.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

“I have very bad posture.”

“I won't eat anything green.”

“I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.”

“She'll come back as fire
burn all the liars
leave a blanket of ash on the ground”

“We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.”

“I take pride as the king of illiterature.”

“We're waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die. And then we'll move into their homes.”

“If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.”

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

“I don't think MTV would let us play that. (After an audience member requests "Rape Me.")”

“And the flowers sing in D minor
And the birds fly happily.”

“Thank you, dear God
For putting me on this Earth
I feel very privileged
In debt for my thirst”

“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?”

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

“God is gay”

“I Hate Myself And I Want To Die.”

“I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.
They're in my head.”

“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”

“Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old.”

“I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend.”

“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.”

“Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.”

“Hello, we're major label corporate rock sell outs.”

“I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.”

“If I may, and if I might
Lay me down, weeping.”

“When I hear the term Right wing I think of Hitler and Satan and Civil war.”

“Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song "Polly". I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience.”

“If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.”

“I've been waiting for that! (After an audience member requests "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.)”

“Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone. We just wanted to pay tribute to something that helped us to feel as though we had crawled out of the dung heap of conformity.”

“Sell the kids for food
weather changes moods
spring is here again
reproductive glands”

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

“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.”

“One baby to another says
I'm lucky to have met you”

“Polly wants a cracker
Think I should get off her first
Think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch.”

“Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend, as a known enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late.”

“Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's…a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it [was] a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.”

“She's just as bored as me
she caught me off my guard
it amazes me, the will of instinct”

“I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena.”