Kurt Cobain Quotes Page 2

“If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my *ss in jail!”

“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.”

“If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.”

“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”

“John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.”

“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.”

“No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer.”

“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.”

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”

“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”

“Rather be dead than cool.”

“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.”

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

“The sun is gone, but I have a light.”

“The worst crime is faking it.”

“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.”

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”

“Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.”

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

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

“We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.”

“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.”