Grunge Quotes - Page 2

• Every day my style changes with my mood. Some days I'll feel a little more grunge and wear boyfriend jeans, but in the summer I like to feel girly and wear dresses.

  Julianne Hough

  Summer, Girly, Jeans

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• I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

  Al Yankovic

  Rocks, Guitar, Appreciate

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

  Ringo Starr

  Attitude, Clothes, Band

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• My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cousin, Aunt, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin

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• I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.

  Butch Vig

  Thinking, Impact, Jam

  "Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust". Music, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with the issues surrounding punk shows at the time. Back then, people thought you had to be a skinhead and beat the crap out of everybody when you went to a punk show. Come the early 90s, when you had this so-called grunge stuff and when videos became so dominant, you had this totally huge shift in the culture of shows.

  Ian MacKaye

  Real, People, Culture

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• I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Hate, Divorce, Periods

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• I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  School, Rocks, Eras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must find The Dress, then The Dress needs to have The Belt, and a complementary but not overly-matching bag must be found which works with not only the correct hosiery, but with something to throw over yourself if you become chilly.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Clothes, Over You

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• I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

  David Cook

  Thinking, Sound, Music Education

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  Hal Sparks

  Artist, Dust, People

  ChicagoPride.com interview, chicago.gopride.com. May 19, 2010.

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• When I began in the late '90s, I felt quite lonely. We were coming out of the grunge era; it was the time of Corinne Day, The Face, the height of the YBAs, where models had to be "real," on real locations with no lighting. I rebelled against the grungeys - I didn't find the faux naturalism to be representative!

  Miles Aldridge

  Lonely, Real, Naturalism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Party, Mean, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The culture's changed massively. The kids are different, with the phones and stuff. Even if you like a song, you don't really know who the artists are, it's a lot more faceless, it's a lot less tribal. When we were growing up it was much more tribal - it was rock, it was grunge. Now people like songs, [but] they don't necessarily know the song's origins. I don't know how you would feel angry at the world, or distressed, because most people are constantly distracted or consumed.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Growing Up, Kids

  "Meet the Major U.K. Band You've Been Missing Out on for Decades" by Raisa Bruner, time.com. November 01, 2017.

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• In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

  Adam Richman

  Floating, Looks, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Guitar, People

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

  Brian Chippendale

  Rocks, People, Radio

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

  Billy Corgan

  Past, Tails, Coats

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• We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with that. And for a garage band, we were massive! We were already successful in our own minds.

  Gwen Stefani

  Successful, Opposites, Doubt

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

  Pedro Winter

  Hip Hop, Skateboarding, Littles

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

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• Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

  Colin Stetson

  Rocks, Band, Phases

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  Adam Pally

  Strong, Thinking, Discipline

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

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• People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

  Billy Corgan

  People

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• When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fun, Dirty, School

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• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  Chuck Eddy

  Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

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