"I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that."
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Kurt Cobain quotes (page 3 of 11)
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"I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't."
"The sun is gone, but I have a light."
"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."
"Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all."
"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."
"The world sucks, people are not true"
"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."
"I like to complain and do nothing to make things better."
"I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away."
"After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity."
"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?"
"I will get stoned and worship Satan."
"I don't care what you think unless it is about me..."
"My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music."
"I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands."
"Once you fall in love... It's different."
"I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice"
"I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form."
"I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean."