"I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken."
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Kurt Cobain quotes (page 9 of 11)
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"If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour."
"I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported."
"Music is first, lyrics are secondary."
"I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday."
"Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out."
"All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned"
"If you read, you'll judge."
"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'."
"I don't want to be a spokesperson."
"That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it."
"Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over."
"Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted."
"I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music."
"If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle."
"If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change."
"I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually"
"We can plant a house, we can build a tree."
"I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time."
"Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream."