...It's better to burn out than to fade away...

Kurt Cobain on his suicidal note

"I'm here to impeach a president and kill a soap opera star" - Krist

"Zits are beauty marks" - Kurt

"It's not some technical, masturbatory, 'see-what-I-can-do?' record." - Dave, on Nevermind

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

"Look, it's a giant Hollywood cigarette full of all sorts of
nicotine and enough tar to cover a parking lot this size!" - Krist

"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

"Dick is short for Richard, and Rich is short for Richard too. So rich people are dicks" - Dave

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

"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." - Chris

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

G'ß?¬??My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had" - Kurt

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

"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

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

"All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things
I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on
someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything.
That's the lesson I've learned" -Kurt

"God is Gay."
It was written as vandalism by Kurt and Chris when they were teenagers.

"Fuck it, man!" - Dave

"A big "fuck you" to those of you who have the audacity to claim that I'm so naive and stupid that I would allow myself to be taken advantage of and manipulated." - Kurt

"If you hurt my wife in any way I'll hurt you." - Kurt

"I know that most of you out there like us, understand what we're trying to say, but as for the rest of you, I FUCKING HATE YOU!! " - Kurt

Grunge, isn't that some gross shade of greenish orange?" - Kurt

"Flower sniffinG'ß?¬ß?', kitty pettinG'ß?¬ß?', baby kissinG'ß?¬ß?', Corporate rock whores." - Krist

"Shut up" - Kurt

"Abort Christ!" -Kurt

"Music is first, lyrics are secondary." - Kurt

"I'm changing my name to numchuck bitch." - Kurt

"My name is Kurt and I sing and play the guitar and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection." - Kurt

"We're just a bar band, that's all we are." -Kurt

"We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves." -Kurt

"So all of my comments tonight are out of a book: How to be Witty at Parties." -Chris

"I just want you people to know that Courtney Love, lead singer of the sensational pop
group Hole, is the best fuck in the world." -Kurt

Interviewer asks Dave: "So why did you go to school anyway?"
Dave's reply: "For lunch!"

Interviewer: "How would you define the music of Nirvana?"
Kurt: "Punk rock, pop rock, hard pop rock."
Krist: "Hard pop rocks on the tip of your tongue, crickling and crackling."

G'ß?¬??One day, Dave and I were sitting around watching a documentary on babies being born underwater." - Kurt, on the Nevermind Cover idea

"If your a sexist, racist, homophobe or basically an arsehole don't buy this CD,
I don't care if you like me, I hate you!" - Kurt

Kurt's first poem:(he wrote it on the wall when he was 9)
'I hate mum,
I hate dad,
Dad hates mum,
Mum hates dad,
It just wants to make u feel so sad.'

"I didn't screw it up, did I?" - Kurt

"Am I going to do this by myself?" - Kurt

"Punk rock should mean freedom, playing whatever you want,
As sloppy as you want as long as it's good and it has passion" - Kurt

"I'll write a couple of sincere lines then kind of slag them off"
- Kurt describing how he writes Nirvana's songs

"Strap on your geetars" - Kurt

"People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio.
I don't know, I don't listen to the radio" - Kurt

"My father said this to me - "I know why you guys've sold so many
records...the video shows a buncha kids trashing a gymnasium!" and I mean...that sorta works like uh, "Nirvana! Spokesmen of the lost generation! They're telling you to go out and destroy your local gymnasium!" I don't really, I don't see it that way, I mean, like, I don't want to hold a responsibility of being a spokesman for anything! I can barely hold my own! I guess it's flattering, and I guess it's great that it acts like sorta, gives people a feeling of sorta like breaking out, and telling um, anyone and anything just to fuck off!" -Dave

"We're going on tour this year and we're gonna have a whole new set
with whole new songs so that we don't ever have to play Smells Like
Teen Spirit again. I mean it's a great song but for many people it's
like the only Nirvana song and that's upsetting" - Kris and Dave

"Anti, let me repeat that, Anti-rape song" - Kurt

"Guns 'n' fucking Roses, Wembley fucking Stadium, Sold fucking Out, BIG
FUCKING DEAL!!!" - Dave

"Our music has a lot of energy to it and in a smaller place energy
translates better" - Dave

"VANDALISM: Beautiful as a rock in a cop's face." -Kurt