All Quotes

"One baby to another says I'm lucky to have met you"

"Chew your meat for you pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss from my mouth to yours i like you"

"With eyes so dilated I've become your pupil"

"I love myself better than you I know it's wrong, so what should I do?"

"It's OK to eat fish 'Cos they don't have any feelings"

"Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old."

"Meat eating orchids forgive no one just yet Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath Broken hymen of your highness, I'm left black Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back."

"Hate me Do it and do it again Waste me Rape me, my friend."

"I miss the comfort in being sad."

"She'll come back as fire burn all the liars leave a blanket of ash on the ground"

"I'm not like them But I can pretend The sun is gone But I have a light the day is done I'm having fun I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy"

"I take pride as the king of illiterature."

"Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally."

"Hate your enemies Save your friends Find your place Speak the truth."

"All in all is all we are."

"And the flowers sing in D minor And the birds fly happily."

"And if you save yourself You will make him happy."

"Things have never been so swell I have never failed to fail"

"Something in her eyes Must be the smoke in my lungs."

"I need you around To remind me what not to become."

"Congratulations, you have won It's a year's subscription of bad puns."

"Neither side is sacred; no one wants to win Feeling so sedated; think I'll just give in."

"If I may, and if I might Lay me down, weeping."

"We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal."

"Hello, we're major label corporate rock sell outs."

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

"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 waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die. And then we'll move into their homes."

"I've been waiting for that! (After an audience member requests "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.)"

"I don't think MTV would let us play that. (After an audience member requests "Rape Me.")"

"What are they tuning, a harp? I thought we were a big rich rock band. We should have a whole bunch of extra guitars."

"Fuck you all, this is the last song of the evening."

"What's the matter with all you people at the back, did you come here to see Gloria Estefan?"

"OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo!"

"I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena."

"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."

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

"Genius is a weird and inappropriate word, and hard work is underrated, but Kurt Cobain had a distinct and personal take on the world, and generally, when someone strikes a chord with his audience, that’s what people respond to...I have to admit that I wasn’t particularly a fan of Nirvana when I was asked to work on In Utero, but during the course of making the record I came to appreciate that they were genuine about their band and their music, that Kurt was capable of sophisticated thinking, and that they and their music were unique."

"Nirvana were like...power-chord music with the occasional Sonic Youth-y flip-out in it. But the power of that band is Kurt Cobain's voice, which is just fucking caramel–a beautiful rock voice."

"Cobain is rarely described as a technical virtuoso, but he did have a fantastic, intuitive feel for the guitar, mirroring his gift for unshakeable John Lennon-inspired songcraft. It looked and felt so natural as an extension of his body (despite the back/stomach/mental pain it allegedly caused him) that every drop of song seemed to show exactly what was happening on the inside — punk’s urgency clasping hands with every classic pop melody he ever absorbed."

"Never a technical player, Cobain rarely relied on flash, preferring to make his point through dynamics instead, fleshing out his songs with judicious use of distortion and feedback. Even his “solos” tended to be self-effacing in the extreme; the guitar break in Teen Spirit, for example, merely reprised the vocal line. But Cobain’s deft use of harmony and lean, tuneful sense of line more than made up for any lack of chops, shoring up the songs so exquisitely that it was easy to overlook how elegant his playing was."

"He had a touch most guitarists would kill for."

"People were trying to call me to do interviews on the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. They want me to say some poignant shit about some poor guy who blew his head off. It's just like, "Give me a fuckin' break, man"...Just say the guy made some good records, and let's get on with it."

"I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking, "God, this music is nuclear," This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around. Nirvana made everything else look silly."

"I was simply blown away when I found out that Kurt Cobain liked my work, and I always wanted to talk to him about his reasons for covering "Man Who Sold The World." It was a good straightforward rendition and sounded somehow very honest. It would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking would have been real cool."

"Cobain was very shy, very polite, and obviously enjoyed the fact that I wasn’t awestruck at meeting him. There was something about him, fragile and engagingly lost."

"Kurt's got a literary bent, and jokes that he likes "anything that starts with a B. I think I like Burroughs best, and I'm into Bukowski and Beckett.""

"I'm sorry I couldn't have spoken to the young man. I see a lot of people at the Zen Center, who have gone through drugs and found a way out that is not just Sunday school. There are always alternatives, and I might have been able to lay something on him. Or maybe not."

"He was the premier icon of grunge, the raw, guitar-heavy, blunt-spoken style that will stand for all time as a signifier of the Nineties."

"That kid has heart."