Cobain Quotes

• It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves

  James Marsters

  Country, Passion, Rocks

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• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  Taylor Momsen

  Courtney

  "'Gossip Girl' star Taylor Momsen talks her debut single, upcoming album, and why she doesn't like pants". Interview With Tim Stack, ew.com. April 22, 2010.

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• I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

  Layne Staley

  Real, Suffering, Shy

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• There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Kids, Writing, Sight

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• I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Daughter, Mother, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Littles, Stuck

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• I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

  Brett Morgen

  My Family, Intimate, Mets

  "Kurt Cobain Speaks - Through Art And Audio Diaries - In 'Montage Of Heck'". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 3, 2015.

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• Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just - he was a worthless shred of human debris.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gentleman, Debris, Humans

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• People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

  Anthony DeCurtis

  Song, People, Captured

  Anthony DeCurtis (1998). “Rocking my life away: writing about music and other matters”, Duke University Press Books

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• Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Challenges, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Jam, Pearls

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• I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

  Bono

  People, Laughing, Ironic

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• Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

  Brett Morgen

  Guitar, Hands, Painting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

  Krist Novoselic

  Dark, Perception, Miserable

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• I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

  Billy Corgan

  Player, Guitar, Perfect

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• Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

  Prince

  Change, Careers, Two

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• I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

  Chad Kroeger

  Artist, Strange, Mathematical

  "Our Hate Has Saved Nickelback" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking

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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Impact, Smell, Fans

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• Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?

  Kanye West

  Character, Thinking, Robots

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• How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

  Jeff Ross

  Looks, Courtney

  "Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

  Patti Smith

  Amy, Youth, Produce

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• I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

  Shakira

  Cute, Smell, Feelings

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• I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

  Christopher Owens

  Important, Unhappy, Half

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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