Kurt Cobain Quotes - Page 7

I'm on my time with everyone.

The future of rock belongs to women.

People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

Believe everything you read

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

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 wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

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

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.