Top 145 Quotes & Sayings by Courtney Love
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Courtney Love.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.
I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.
If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
Being offended is part of being in the real world.
The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
You gotta be able to change worlds.
Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
But, you know, all good rock is easy.
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
I like free gowns.
The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.
I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Only dumb people are happy.
Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.
If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.
Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.
Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real
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