Kurt cobain quotes

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

You can't buy happiness

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

I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

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.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

You create attention to attract attention.

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'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

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.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

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

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

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

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

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

Rather be dead than cool.

If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

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

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

All in all is all we are.

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

I’m worse at what I do best.

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

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

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

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

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

The worst crime is faking it.

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

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.

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

In the sun I feel as one.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

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

If you read, you'll judge.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

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.

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.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

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

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

Who needs action when you got words?

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

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

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

Don't expect me to die for you.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

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

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

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

The world sucks, people are not true

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

I will get stoned and worship Satan.

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.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.

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.

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.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

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

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

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

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

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.