Top 220 Quotes & Sayings by Kurt Cobain - Page 2

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

Once you fall in love... It's different.

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

You create attention to attract attention.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

All in all is all we are.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. 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.

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

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

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 will get stoned and worship Satan.

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

If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

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

The world sucks, people are not true

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.