Top 117 Grunge Quotes & Sayings

The grunge thing was a little bit atrocious. 'Let's all put on plaid shirts and be as dirty as possible!'

I'm like pixie grunge. The perfect blend of sugar and spice.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.

It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

The world is a pile of grunge.

I thought the grunge scene was cool. This is going to sound weird, but I remember doing a concert at a tavern in the mid-'80s with Nirvana.

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and then when I’m feeling a little nostalgic, I put on my ‘grunge tuxedo’ - flannel shirt, long shorts with long underwear underneath them, and a pair of Doc Martens - and dance around the house to Tad records.

The Melvins are grunge.

Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.

I don't know much about that whole grunge thing.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

My fashion icons range from bubblegum pop princesses to grunge queens.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you didn't even know it was jazz.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' - my brother gave me that album.

Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. I can't relate to it either, as for grunge music, well that was the death kneel for a lot of the glam metal hair bands of the 80's, so I really do not care for grunge. I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

One thing about my mother is that she has her taste: She knows what she likes and what looks good. It's not studied. There is no insecurity in what she is going to wear, and I think that translates into effortlessness. Her career has been a steady rise, and it hasn't been about the fashion of the moment. It's been because she has kept to her style. She didn't go grunge when it was grunge, or 70's when it was 70's. It's about being secure with what you like and not worrying about what's in fashion that particular day. That's what I admire about her.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.

I never really followed grunge.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.