Quotes by Kurt Cobain

“You can't buy happiness”

“Peace,love,empathy”

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

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

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

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”

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

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

“Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for th...”

“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, especiall...”

“Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.”

“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.”

“And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs. So if you see a good live show on drugs an...”

“I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in d...”

“Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.”

“In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-bellied pigs, another classic Cobainism, though only one of his three claims was true.”

“Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting Boat Ack in red letters on the...”

“I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.”