Cobain Quotes

• It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves

  James Marsters

  Country, Passion, Rocks

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• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  Taylor Momsen

  Courtney

  "'Gossip Girl' star Taylor Momsen talks her debut single, upcoming album, and why she doesn't like pants". Interview With Tim Stack, ew.com. April 22, 2010.

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• I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

  Layne Staley

  Real, Suffering, Shy

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• There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Kids, Writing, Sight

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• I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Daughter, Mother, Different

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

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• [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Littles, Stuck

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• I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

  Brett Morgen

  My Family, Intimate, Mets

  "Kurt Cobain Speaks - Through Art And Audio Diaries - In 'Montage Of Heck'". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 3, 2015.

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• I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

  Billy Corgan

  Player, Guitar, Perfect

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• Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just - he was a worthless shred of human debris.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gentleman, Debris, Humans

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• I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

  Bono

  People, Laughing, Ironic

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• Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Challenges, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Jam, Pearls

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• Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

  Brett Morgen

  Guitar, Hands, Painting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

  Krist Novoselic

  Dark, Perception, Miserable

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• People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

  Anthony DeCurtis

  Song, People, Captured

  Anthony DeCurtis (1998). “Rocking my life away: writing about music and other matters”, Duke University Press Books

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• Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

  Prince

  Change, Careers, Two

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• When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Writing, Men, White

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• I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

  Michael Stipe

  Guy, Trying, Collaboration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.

  Brett Morgen

  Stars, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.

  Brett Morgen

  Thinking, Gender Bias, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could.

  Brett Morgen

  Art, World, Able

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

  Brett Morgen

  Thinking, Unique, Ability

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

  Brett Morgen

  Singing, Collectives

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Responsibility, Guitar

  "An open letter from the Cobain family", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2001.

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• I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Writing, School, Important

  "Interview: Diiv On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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