Kurt Cobain

Nirvana, grunge

Contemporary influential 137 sayings

Sayings by Kurt Cobain

I'm usually offended by people like Vanilla Ice and stuff like that.

1991 — M.E.A.T. magazine interview
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I'm a heterosexual . . . big deal. But if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter either.

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I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem. Although I never experimented with it, I had a gay friend and then my mother wouldn't allow me to be friends with him anymore because she's homophobic. It was real devastating because finally I'd found a male friend who I actually hugged and was affectionate to and we talked about a lot of things.

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All in all is all we are.

1993 — Song: 'All Apologies' ('In Utero')
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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.

2002 — Journals
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

Unknown — Interview with Frank Andrick
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Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other and tend to their home repairs and children while never missing their true mission. To scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.

Unknown — Journals
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I'm worse at what I do best.

Unknown — Journals
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Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

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

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

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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.

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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

1993 — Song: 'Dumb' ('In Utero')
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I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away.

1994 — Suicide note (partially quoted)
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They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Unknown — Journals
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Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

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I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends. They're in my head.

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

Unknown — Journals
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I'm a happy person. I'm a really miserable person.

1994 — Interview with Rolling Stone
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