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Kurt Donald Cobain, né le 20 février 1967 à Aberdeen et mort le 5 avril 1994 à Seattle, est un musicien, artiste, chanteur, auteur-compositeur et guitariste américain. Il forme son groupe Nirvana en 1987 avec Krist Novoselic dans lequel il est le chanteur et le guitariste.

En deux ans, le groupe devient un pilier de la scène grunge de Seattle alors en pleine émergence, notamment avec la sortie du titre Smells Like Teen Spirit en 1991, tiré de Nevermind, leur second album. Durant les dernières années de sa vie, Kurt Cobain lutte contre sa dépendance à l'héroïne et subit avec son épouse Courtney Love une importante pression médiatique. Le 8 avril 1994, il est retrouvé mort dans sa maison à Seattle. Il s'est suicidé d'une balle dans la tête trois jours plus tôt. Cependant, quelques théories ont tenté de démontrer qu'il pourrait s'agir d'un homicide.

✵ 20. février 1967 – 5. avril 1994
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Kurt Cobain Citations

Kurt Cobain: Citations en anglais

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

Quoted by Cobain in his suicide note, this is from the song My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) by Neil Young, from his album Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Misattributed
Variante: It's better to burn out than fade away.

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

About a Girl.
Song lyrics, Bleach (1989)

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

As quoted in BAM (1992-01-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

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

1991-04-17 at the OK Hotel, Seattle, Washington
Stage banter

“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

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

Do Re Mi
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

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

Kurt Cobain livre Journals

Source: Journals (2002), p. 259

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

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

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

Opinion.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

“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.”

As quoted in Melody Maker (1992-07-18).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Variante: I would only wear a tie dyed T Shirt if it were dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia. [p. 269]

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

1993-12-30 at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
Stage banter

“What are they tuning, a harp? I thought we were a big rich rock band. We should have a whole bunch of extra guitars.”

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

“Something in her eyes
Must be the smoke in my lungs.”

Clean Up Before She Comes.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

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

1993-12-31 at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California, in between "About a Girl" and "Lithium".
Stage banter

“Zits are beauty marks.”

As quoted in Sassy (1992-04).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

“Friends are nothing but a known enemy”

Variante: A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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