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Quotes from Interviews — Kurt Cobain

1967–1994 United States

← All quotes by Kurt Cobain

18 quotes

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Interviews (1989)

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Interviews (1989)

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes.

Interviews (1989)

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.

Interviews (1989)

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

Interviews (1989)

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Interviews (1989)

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Interviews (1989)

They're claiming that [the grunge bands] finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? ...I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?

Interviews (1989)

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against [them].

Interviews (1989)

I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.

Interviews (1989)

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.

Interviews (1989)

In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.

Interviews (1989)

The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.

Interviews (1989)

Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.

Interviews (1989)

I can't play [guitar] like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.

Interviews (1989)

I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.

Interviews (1989)

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.

Interviews (1989)

We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.

Interviews (1989)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kurt Cobain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.