Kurt Cobain Quotes

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

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

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

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

I won't eat anything green.

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

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

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

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

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.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

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

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

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

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

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

I’m worse at what I do best.

all i want...is mac and cheese

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

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.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

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

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

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

If you read, you'll judge.

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

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.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

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

In the sun I feel as one.

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

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

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

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.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

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.