"It's safe to say, don't quote me on that"

"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." -Kurt

"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." -Kurt Cobain, 1992

"At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." -Kurt

"Our songs have the standard pop format: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all we sound like the Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath." -Kurt, on Nirvana's sound

"Kurt chews bubblegum in his soul." -Courtney on Kurt's song writing

"I'm a walking talking bacterial infection!" -Kurt

"I was driving and 'Teen Spirit' came on the radio, and I thought 'God, that really sounds like shit!'" -Dave Grohl

"There was this guy who was about six-foot-seven, really huge. He's telling a story, and he's really loud and obnoxious and jumping around. Then there's this other tiny weasel of a guy sitting in a corner, not talking to anybody and looking like he's taking a shit." -Dave recounting his first encounter with Chris and Kurt

"I don't want to be a fucking spokesperson." -Kurt

" It is better to burn out then fade away " -Kurt

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

"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." -Kurt

"I found it hard, it was hard to find, oh well, whatever, nevermind" -Kurt

"...I donīt have the passion anymore...... PEACE,LOVE,EMPATHY..." -Kurt

"Kurt would have been shocked by the lasting impact he's made." -Dave Grohl

"It's better to burn out than to die away." -Kurt

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

"I hate myself and I want to die." -Kurt

"I had a good marriage,and for that I'm grateful. But since the age of seven I have become hateful toward all humans in general only because it seems so easy for people to get along that have empathy." -Kurt

"Dick is a short form for Richard. So if you rich your a dick." - Dave Grohl

"I never wanted the fame in any of this. But that is a whole different story." - Kurt

"The name of our band is pronounced "Nir-vah-nah", not "Nir-van-na" - Dave

"Silence, Here I Am." -Kurt D. Cobain

"THE FINEST DAY I EVER HAD IS WHEN I LEARNED TO CRY ON COMMAND" -Kurt

"Thank you all for coming, you've been a wonderful audience. Have a safe ride home. Remember not to drink and drive. Remember to vote. Remember not to jaywalk. Remember not to take drugs while in the company of a minor.... or in front of narcotics officers." - Dave Grohl

KURT TALKS ABOUT GOING TO CAPITOL RECORDS AND MEETING A PROMO MAN: "He's this good old boy from Texas, looks like he would like to beat my mom up, I just wanted to dance on top of his desk with a dress on and piss all over the place. Then he asked me 'So on that song "Polly" are you beatin' that bitch?', and I said 'Yes, I am.' we knew this wasn't the label for us."

"I am my own pet parisite, I don't need a host to live, we can feed off of each other, we can share our endorphins."- Kurt

"I'm not like them, but I can pretend, the sun is gone but I have a light."- Kurt

"PEACE LOVE EMPATHY."- Kurt

"Up until I was 9, I felt I could become a rock star or an astronaut or the president"-Kurt

"I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually"-Kurt

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

"I'll be the first to admit we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack"-Kurt

"There is nothing i like more than pure underground music"-Kurt

"I don't want my daughter to grow up and someday be hassled by kids at school...I don't want people telling her that her parents were junkies"-Kurt

"Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either."-Kurt

"I'm so lonely that's ok I shave my head and I'm not sad"-Kurt

"What else should I be, all apologies." -Kurt

This is Kurt at a concert... "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." -Kurt

"Kill 'em all I say." -Chris

"Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you." -Territorial Pissings -Kurt

"Violence: as beautiful as rock in a cops face." -Kurt

"Grunge is dead." -Kurt

"I hate myself I want to die." -Kurt

"His role has been played for years. 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. Why it's such a fresh and new thing in his eyes is obviously because it's happening to him personally and he's such an egotistical person that he thinks that the whole world owes him something."-Kurt Cobain on Axel Rose

"At the end of the last couple of months when I was doing $400 worth every day, I was definitely noticing things about my memory and I knew that eventually my health would start getting a lot worse. It sounds like I don't regret it and I don't, but that's because I used it as a tool. I used it as a medication to get rid of a pain. And that's the biggest reason why I did it. In that sense, I don't regret it, but anybody else who's going to get addicted to drugs are obviously going to fuck up their lives eventually. If it doesn't take a year, it will be next year. I've seen it happen with every person that gets strung out. Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.-Kurt Cobain on heroin

"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'."-Kurt Cobain on his lyrics

"I should just rerecord this record and do the same thing we did last year because we sold out last year - there's no reason to try to redeem ourselves as artists at this point. I can't help myself- I'm just putting out a record that I would like to listen to at home. I never listen to Nevermind. I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something. I can't stand that kind of production and I don't listen to bands that have that kind of production, no matter how good their songs are. It just bothers me."-Kurt on In Utero

"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

"We felt like we could do whatever we wanted to do. There weren't any restrictions and it got wierd and jammy and we'd so these noisy new wave noise experimental jam things. We'd always start off the practice just jamming. We'd set up and plug in and jam for twenty minutes on nothing at all. There were probably thirty or forty songs we had written that are just gone."-Dave Grohl

"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

"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 whinning about for years."-Kurt Cobain

"What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc."-Kurt Cobain

"By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not," Cobain says. "There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath."-Kurt Cobain

"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." -Kurt Cobain

"And I swear that I don't have a gun."-Kurt Cobain, Come As You Are

"I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends, they're in my head."-Kurt Cobain, Lithium

I'VE BECOME HATEFUL TOWARDS ALL HUMANS IN GENERAL, ONLY BECAUSE I LOVE AND FEEL FOR PEOPLE TOO MUCH -KURT

I liked anything that Was A Little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, dirgey bands'- Kurt

RAPE IS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIBLE CRIMES ON EARTH. 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 TO TEACH MEN NOT TO RAPE, TO GO TO THE SOURCE AND START THERE -KURT

WHEN I WRITE A SONG, THE LYRICS ARE THE LEAST IMPORTANT THINg -KURT