Kurt Cobain Quotes

American rock musician (1967–1994)

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Kurt Donald Cobain (19 December 1967 – ca. 5 April 1994) was the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana.

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Pen Names: Kurdt Kobain

Alternative Names: Kurt Donald Cobain • Kurt D. Cobain

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

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

I’m such a nihilistic jerk half the time. I’m so fucking sarcastic at times and then at other times I’m still vulnerable and so sincere. That’s pretty much how every song comes out — it’s like a mixture of both of them, and that’s pretty much how people my age are. I’m just as pissed off about the things that made me pissed off a few years ago. I’m pissed off about everything in general so all these songs are pretty much about my battle with the things that piss me off.

I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own. [p. 95]

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.

If you read, you'll judge.

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

I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.

This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me.

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally.

I won't eat anything green.

Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.

You can't buy happiness

Music comes first; lyrics are secondary. Most of my lyrics are contradictions. I'll write a few sincere lines, and then I'll have to make fun of [them]. I don't like to make it too obvious, because if it is too obvious, it gets really stale. You shouldn't be in people's faces 100% all the time. We don't mean to be really cryptic or mysterious, but I just think that lyrics that are different and weird and spacey paint a nice picture. It's just the way I like art.