Kurt Cobain Quotes

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

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

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

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

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

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

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

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

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

I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Once you fall in love... It's different.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

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

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

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.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

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

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

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.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

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.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

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

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.

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

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

You create attention to attract attention.

Zits are beauty marks.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I'm on my time with everyone.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.