Kurt Cobain Quotes - Page 7

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Gun, Swear

  "Come as you are". Song by Kurt Cobain, 1991.

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Blood, Ties, Shirts

  Melody Maker Newspaper, July 18, 1992.

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• I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

  Kurt Cobain

  Jobs, One Day, Quitting

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, Rhythm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be a spokesperson.

  Kurt Cobain

  Want

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• My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

  Kurt Cobain

  Contradiction, Bigs

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  "Nirvana's Rise To Fame, In Their Own Words" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2011.

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Talking, Play

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Rooms

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• My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Theme, Frustrating

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• There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Guy, Endorsements

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• Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

  Kurt Cobain

  Careers, Looks, Too Late

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• We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, Long

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Dresses, Want, Matter

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Baby, Guitar, Crowds

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Yugoslavia, Issues

  The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Years, Names, Parent

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Acting, Firsts, Busy

  "Song: "Very Ape" ("In Utero")". September 21, 1993.

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• The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

  Kurt Cobain

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "10 years ago today, Kurt Cobain took his life. What part of him lives on in music? In his fans? And then there's Courtney" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2004.

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• Believe everything you read

  Kurt Cobain

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Hate, Cheesy, Wish

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• I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Two, Quality

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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Highlander

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

  Kurt Cobain

  Band

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