70 Quotes by Courtney Love
Courtney Love is an influential musician, singer, and songwriter known for her role as the frontwoman of the alternative rock band Hole. As a prominent figure in the grunge and alternative music scenes of the 1990s, Love's music and performances were characterized by their raw intensity and emotional depth. Her fearless and unapologetic approach to art and self-expression challenged traditional gender roles and stereotypes in the music industry.
Beyond her music career, Love has also dabbled in acting and activism. Despite facing personal struggles and controversies, she remains a symbol of empowerment for many women in the music world and beyond. Courtney Love's contributions to the music industry and her outspoken advocacy for individuality and creative freedom have left a lasting impact on generations of musicians and fans alike.
Courtney Love Quotes
Cocaine is like really evil coffee.
Only dumb people are happy.
Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real.
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
Being offended is part of being in the real world.
No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.
Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.
If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
I'm covered with loser dust.
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.
My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.
If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.
Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto.
Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb.
A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you're not comfortable with.
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.
I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.
If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue.
To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
Four inch nails is more like it!
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.
The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
That which is imagined need never be lost.
I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.
Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.
The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.
I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.
Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.
If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.
Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.
I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.
For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.
I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.
There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.
That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!
I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.
Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.
It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.
How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?
Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.
― Courtney Love Quotes
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