Kurt Cobain citations

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“He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means.”

“I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack but the last to admit that it hasn't been rewarding.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”