Top 220 Quotes & Sayings by Kurt Cobain - Page 3

Don't expect me to die for you.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.

I hate myself, and I want to die

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Who needs action when you got words?

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

You can't buy happiness

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

In the sun I feel as one.

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned

I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

Believe everything you read

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

I'm on my time with everyone.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

If you read, you'll judge.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

Zits are beauty marks.

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.