The Best Kurt Cobain quotes

I’m on my time with everyone. — Kurt Cobain

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they’ve transcribed the lyrics incorrectly? — Kurt Cobain

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

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. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

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

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. — Kurt Cobain

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

I’m thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked–out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. — Kurt Cobain

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time. — Kurt Cobain

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

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We’d drink tea all the time! — Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool. — Kurt Cobain

In the sun I feel as one. — Kurt Cobain

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 Cobain

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

With the lights out, It’s less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us. — Kurt Cobain

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

There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. — Kurt Cobain

Here we are now, entertain us. — Kurt Cobain

Don’t expect me to die for you. — Kurt Cobain

Before I die many will die with me and they’ll deserve it. See you in Hell. — Kurt Cobain

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday. — Kurt Cobain

It’s better to burn out than fade away. — Kurt Cobain

None of you will ever know what I am thinking. — Kurt Cobain

Once you fall in love… It’s different. — Kurt Cobain

Frances and Courtney, I’ll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU. — Kurt Cobain

No one is afraid of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer… — Kurt Cobain

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

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

I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not. — Kurt Cobain

I will get stoned and worship Satan. — Kurt Cobain

Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up. — Kurt Cobain

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

Music is first, lyrics are secondary. — Kurt Cobain

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

Because there is nothing in the world I like more than pure underground music. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling. — Kurt Cobain

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music. — Kurt Cobain

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can’t remember the last real interesting conversation I’ve had in a long time. Words aren’t as important as the energy derived from music, especially live. — Kurt Cobain

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. — Kurt Cobain

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

We’re just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

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

Nobody dies a virgin… Life fucks us all. — Kurt Cobain

Life isn’t nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion. — Kurt Cobain

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. — Kurt Cobain

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

Maybe we can change some kid’s life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer. — Kurt Cobain

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over. — Kurt Cobain

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

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, ‘dingey’ bands. — Kurt Cobain

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music. — Kurt Cobain

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you’ll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

I think I’m dumb or maybe just happy think I’m just happy… — Kurt Cobain

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

The day is done. I’m having fun. I think I’m dumb. Or maybe just happy. — Kurt Cobain

I’m so happy ’cause today I’ve found my friends….They’re in my head. I’m so ugly, but that’s okay, ’cause so are you. — Kurt Cobain

I’m so happy. Cause today I found my friends. They’re in my head. — Kurt Cobain

I’m a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am. — Kurt Cobain

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. — Kurt Cobain

I’m not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes. — Kurt Cobain

I wish I would tell our audience that we don’t hate them without sounding cheesy. — Kurt Cobain

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

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first. — Kurt Cobain

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. — Kurt Cobain

I just hope I don’t become so blissful I become boring. I think I’ll always be neurotic enough to do something weird. — Kurt Cobain

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man. — Kurt Cobain

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I’ve got. — Kurt Cobain