Kurt Cobain: Quotes about thinking

Kurt Cobain was American musician and artist. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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

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

Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)