100 Quotes by Kurt Cobain

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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. (Meaning)

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are (Meaning)

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile. (Meaning)

Oh well, whatever, nevermind. (Meaning)

I'm not like them, but I can pretend. (Meaning)

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. (Meaning)

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? (Meaning)

All in all is all we are. (Meaning)

The sun is gone, but I have a light. (Meaning)

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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. (Meaning)

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. (Meaning)

Rather be dead than cool. (Meaning)

Don't read my diary when I'm gone. (Meaning)

The worst crime is faking it. (Meaning)

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. (Meaning)

A friend is nothing but a known enemy. (Meaning)

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. (Meaning)

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. (Meaning)

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I’m worse at what I do best. (Meaning)

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman. (Meaning)

Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (Meaning)

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face. (Meaning)

We can plant a house, we can build a tree. (Meaning)

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before. (Meaning)

Here we are now, entertain us. (Meaning)

If you read, you'll judge. (Meaning)

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

She eyes me like a pisces. (Meaning)

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well. (Meaning)

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

The worst crime is faking it.

If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Rather be dead than cool.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

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

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Zits are beauty marks.

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.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

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.

The world sucks, people are not true

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

I will get stoned and worship Satan.

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

Once you fall in love... It's different.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

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

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Who needs action when you got words?

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

All in all is all we are.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

Don't expect me to die for you.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

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

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. 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 just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

You can't buy happiness

I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!

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

The future of rock belongs to women.

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

You create attention to attract attention.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

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.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

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 really miss being able to blend in with people.

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

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 write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

I’m worse at what I do best.

All i want...is mac and cheese

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.

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.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

In the sun I feel as one.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

I'm on my time with everyone.

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.