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. Kurt Cobain Addict • Corner • Difficult • Fight • Food • Gloomy • Kind • Me • Myself • Pain • People • Problem • Reason • Sick • Stomach • Terrible Stomach • Years
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. Kurt Cobain Back • Guitar • Hide • Never • Play • Rhythm • Rhythm Guitar
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. Kurt Cobain Doing • External World • Freedom • Musical • Nirvana • Pain • Pretty • Suffering • Terms • Webster • World
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. Kurt Cobain Adoration • Anonymity • Back • Frontman • John • Lennon • Ringo • Rock • Rock And Roll • Roll Star • Starr • Time • Want
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. Kurt Cobain Back • Nothing • Opinions • Primal Sincerity • Strong • Up
I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance. Kurt Cobain Appearance • Feel • Happy • Like • People • People Feel • Reaction
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. Kurt Cobain Because • Eat • Feelings • Fish • Food • Okay
Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me. Kurt Cobain Axl Rose • Beginning • Me • Rock • Rock And Roll • Rose
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. Kurt Cobain Introduced • Music • Only • Punk • Punk Rock • Rap • Rock • Vital Form
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. Kurt Cobain Along • Drugs • Everything • Good • Memory • Self-Respect • Selfesteem • Time • Waste
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. Kurt Cobain Anyhow • Feminine • Friends • Gay • Girls • High School • Life • Person • Really • School • Sickly
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. Kurt Cobain Adds • Anger • Bent • Body • Curvature • Damaged • Guitar • Music • Pain • Psychosomatic • Red • Red Irritation • Scoliosis • Spine • Stomach • Two • Ways
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! Kurt Cobain Ass • Illegal • Jail • Rock • Rock And Roll • Roll • Throw
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. Kurt Cobain Complaining • Done • Exciting • Life • Lot • Much • Somebody • Story • Things • Wish
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. Kurt Cobain Anger • Happy • Least • Love • Now • Relationships • Songs • Themes
I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection. Kurt Cobain Bacterial • Guitar • Infection • Play • Sing • Talking • Walking
I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something. Kurt Cobain Listen • Never • Out • Since • Something
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me. Kurt Cobain Able • Current • Doing • Foreign • Lot • Me • Music • Myself • Outside • Pretty • Respond • Rock • Stars • Things • World
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music. Kurt Cobain Band • Before • Heard • Music • Punk • Wanted
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music. Kurt Cobain Alternative Music • Get • Kids • Meeting • Music • Thrill • Thrill Meeting • Who
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. Kurt Cobain Bob • Career • Dylan • I Wish • Me • Night • Songs • Voice • Wish
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. Kurt Cobain Band • Connected • First • First Time • Pixies • Time
When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times. Kurt Cobain About • Cry • Hate • Listen • Me • Nevermind • Production • Something
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. Kurt Cobain Equipment • Musical • Musical Equipment • Never • Sacred • Very
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain Person • Someone • Wanting • Waste • You
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. Kurt Cobain Afraid • Best • Completely • Death • Death Becoming • Dying • Happy • Hope • Lives • Peace • Someone • Somewhere • Soul • Total
I'm so happy because today I found my friends – they're in my head. Kurt Cobain Because • Friends • Happy • Head • Today
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. Kurt Cobain American • Beer • Closer • Commercial • Feel • Feminine • Human • Male • Mean • See • Side • You
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. Kurt Cobain Cheap • Crap • Favorite • Fender • Guitars • Like • Mustang • Out • Small • Sound • Whole • World
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. Kurt Cobain Age • Artist • Artistic • Contract • Early • Early Age • Me • Mother
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. Kurt Cobain Definitely • Down • Favorite • Hands • John • Lennon
I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday. Kurt Cobain Interested • Like • Own • Perfumery • Smells • Someday • Think
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. Kurt Cobain Anything • Anytime • Cancer • Emotional Level • Every • Highest • I Can • Kids • Little • Me • Sadder • See • Think • Time
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. Kurt Cobain Better • Complain • Like • Nothing • Things
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. Kurt Cobain Anyone • Baby • Crowd • Guitar • Jaguar • Jump • Own • Refuse • Touch
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. Kurt Cobain Easy • Favorite • Fender • Find • Guitars • Highquality • Lefthanded • Mustang • Only • Out • Reasonably • Two • Whole • World
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. Kurt Cobain Creativity • Little Notepads • Myself • Paper • Person • Portion • Prolific Person • Small • True
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me. Kurt Cobain Know • Me • Rock • Rock Star • Star • Success
I've always had a problem with the average macho man – they've always been a threat to me. Kurt Cobain Always • Average • Average Macho • Been • Man • Me • Problem • Threat
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. Kurt Cobain Being • Even • Fact • Gay • Proud • Really Proud • Started
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. Kurt Cobain Average • Bit • Blame • Grow • Identity • Kid • Life • Little • Me • Punkrock • Realize • Rock • Sellout • Seventeenyearold • Things
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. Kurt Cobain Attracted • Friends • Gay • Glad • Me • Sexually • Thought • Try • Women
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