Top 217 Kurt Quotes & Sayings

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.

The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for £250.

I know Kurt Volker definitely to be a man of integrity.

To have a record crowd for What Culture, to be in there with Kurt Angle and not to be just, like, Kurt Angle plus garnish, for it instead to be Kurt Angle v. Cody Rhodes, our second match, actually - it was very vindicating. It's also nice, you know: the greatest revenge in all the world is success, so it's nice to be vindicated.

Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.

Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

Kurt Angle is an Olympic gold medalist, one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.

I just didn't really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him.

I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt's footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.

Since retiring, there's only been one time I actually dreamed about wrestling. In my dream, I was wrestling against Kurt Angle. I had him clamped in a headlock. I was breathing hard, and I remember telling myself, 'This is only a dream. It's not real.' But the longer I held Kurt in a headlock, I started to believe it was real.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.

I was in Ann Arbor, and I was told that this singer-songwriter guy wanted to meet me. It was Kurt Cobain. Nirvana had just made 'Bleach.' Kurt interviewed me on a college radio station. It was very strange. He was a fan of mine, and he gave me his album.

Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.

When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.

I think Kurt Sutter's different as a creator for different people. My experience of Kurt Sutter has always been a really professional, lovely one. I like Kurt Sutter very much.

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

Kurt Warner is not who he is without the city of St. Louis.

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

Oh yeah Kurt? You plan on getting the 1-2-3? But not if I hit you first with the 6-1-9!

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.

Kurt Vonnegut and I - it's not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him.

My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.

I don't know... I don't think you can trust any of Kurt's characters. That's how Mr. Sutter operates: nothing is what it seems.

I really don't care if Stephanie enjoys kissing Kurt Angle. Or if Kurt Angle enjoys kissing Stephanie. Or hell, if Kurt Angle enjoys kissing Triple H! Cause as far as I'm concerned all three of you can kiss my ass!

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

I'd love to be the new Kurt Cobain.

Eminem is like a God to me. Besides that, Kurt Cobain has been my evergreen musical guru.

Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just - he was a worthless shred of human debris.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.