Kurt Cobain: Quotes about thinking

“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.”

Kurt Cobain

Feeling , People , Sadness , Love

“I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”

Kurt Cobain

Variant: I don't care what you think unless it is about me

Thinking

“I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy…”

Kurt Cobain

Variant: I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy.

Thinking , Happiness

“People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.”

Kurt Cobain

Life , People , Feeling , Thinking

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

Kurt Cobain

Hope , Thinking

“Neither side is sacred; no one wants to win
Feeling so sedated; think I'll just give in.”

Kurt Cobain

Verse Chorus Verse.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

Feeling , Thinking

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

Kurt Cobain

As quoted in Rolling Stone (1993-01-27).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

People , Guy , Thinking

“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 [them]. 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.”

Kurt Cobain

Date unknown, but appears on Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

People , Art , Music , Way

“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.”

Kurt Cobain

to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

Drink , Dead , People , Music

“It’s sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world’s gonna explode. It’s already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it’s barely alive now. It’s disgusting. I mean, kids don’t even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It’s already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can’t see music being of any importance to a teenager, really.”

Kurt Cobain

to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

Dead , Music , Thinking , World

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

Kurt Cobain

1993-11-18 at Sony Music Studios, New York City, New York (MTV Unplugged).
Stage banter

Thinking

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

Kurt Cobain

From an interview on MTV with Zeca Camargo, 1993-01-21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

Thinking

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

Kurt Cobain book Journals

Source: Journals (2002), p. 259

War , Thinking

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

Kurt Cobain

Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)

Thinking , Water