Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. "
Kurt Cobain
Opinions
Back
Nothing
Related Quotes:
" Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. "
Kurt Cobain
Memory
Self-Respect
Along
" I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. "
Kurt Cobain
Heavy Metal
Attitude
Looking
" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "
Kurt Cobain
Artist
Age
Contract
" The sun is gone, but I have a light. "
Kurt Cobain
Sun
Light
Gone
" When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. "
Kurt Cobain
Time
Band
First
" I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean. "
Kurt Cobain
Beer
American
Feel
" I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. "
Kurt Cobain
Guitar
Never
Play
" If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! "
Kurt Cobain
Rock And Roll
Roll
Rock
" 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. "
Kurt Cobain
Back
Looking
Looking Back
" I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. "
Kurt Cobain
Life
Living
Me
" When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times. "
Kurt Cobain
Makes
Me
Production
" I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. "
Kurt Cobain
Friends
Happy
Today
" I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. "
Kurt Cobain
Favorite
Two
World
" My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. "
Kurt Cobain
Red
Pain
Music
" Rather be dead than cool. "
Kurt Cobain
Rather
Cool
Than
" There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world. "
Kurt Cobain
Work
Attitude
Child
" 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. "
Kurt Cobain
Anger
Love
Now
" 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. "
Kurt Cobain
Out
Like
Cheap
" If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. "
Kurt Cobain
Death
Best
Soul
" I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. "
Kurt Cobain
Acting
Here
First
" I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. "
Kurt Cobain
Been
Man
Average
" John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. "
Kurt Cobain
John
Favorite
Down
" I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. "
Kurt Cobain
Life
Done
Complaining
" I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music. "
Kurt Cobain
Music
Meeting
Kids
" I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. "
Kurt Cobain
Divorce
Me
Good
" Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. "
Kurt Cobain
Night
Voice
Wish
" I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something. "
Kurt Cobain
Something
Listen
Never
" I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something. "
Kurt Cobain
Women
Gay
Me
" I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me. "
Kurt Cobain
Rock
Myself
World
" I really miss being able to blend in with people. "
Kurt Cobain
Able
People
Really