Cobain Quotes

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

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.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends. They're in my head.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

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

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Rather be dead then cool

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!

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

With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.

You can't buy happiness

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.

I’m worse at what I do best.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

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

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Peace,love,empathy

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

All In All Is All We Are

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

I feel compelled to say fuck you fuck you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you’ll ever know. So again I say fuck you although this phrase has totally lost its meaning. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU.

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.

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

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer...

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.

She eyes me like a pisces.

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

all i want...is mac and cheese

If you read, you'll judge.

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.

I'm not like them But I can pretend

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

I have very bad posture.

He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Here we are now, entertain us.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

I won't eat anything green.

Believe everything you read

I'm on my time with everyone.

Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

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

Prefiero ser el peor de los mejores, que el mejor de los peores

Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other and tend to their home repairs and children while never missing their true mission. To scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint! Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled by passion.A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age,fuckin cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes,they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special!

I looked more like Kurt Cobain than ever, except I doubt Cobain ever wore a shirt that read: WIGGLES ROCK & ROLL PRESCHOOL TOUR! The really disturbing thing was that they made shirts like that in my size.

There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge)

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.

In his dreadful lassitude and objectless rage, Cobain seemed to have give wearied voice to the despondency of the generation that had come after history, whose every move was anticipated, tracked, bought and sold before it had even happened. Cobain knew he was just another piece of spectacle, that nothing runs better on MTV than a protest against MTV; knew that his every move was a cliché scripted in advance, knew that even realising it is a cliché. The impasse that paralysed Cobain in precisely the one that Fredric Jameson described: like postmodern culture in general, Cobain found himself in ‘a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, where all that is left is to imitate dead styles in the imaginary museum’.

Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.

Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.

Carpe Manga

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

Nobody dies a virgin...life fucks us

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

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'.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn’t want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it’s cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there’s a hell, they’ll go there.