"Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world." -Kurt

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

"Zits are beauty marks"- 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 bubble gum in his soul." -Courtney on Kurt's song writing

"I'm a walking talking bacterial infection!" -Kurt
"It's not some technical, masturbatory, 'see-what-I-can-do?' record." -Dave, on Nevermind
"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 sh#t." -Dave recounting his first encounter with Chris and Kurt

"I don't want to be a f#cking spokesperson." -Kurt

"It is better to burn out than to fade away " -Neil Young in the song My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
"Just take it easy, have a little bit of respect. We all sh*t." -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

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

"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

"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 f#ck alone!
Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." -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 short for Richard, and Rich is short for Richard too. So rich people are dicks" - 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

"Even the guys in the safety patrol called me 'faggot'." -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." - Chris


"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 p#ss all over the place. Then he asked me
'So on that song "Polly" are you beatin' that b#tch?', and I said 'Yes, I am.' we knew
this wasn't the label for us." (Kurt talks about going to Capitol Records
and meeting a promo man)

"I was driving and 'Teen Spirit' came on the radio, and I thought 'God, that really sounds like
sh*t!'" -Dave Grohl

"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

"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

"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


"There was just that feeling in the air, no one could quite pinpoint
it, but we knew that we were a part of it, you know" -Kurt

"I have to hear rumors about me all the time.
I'm totally f#cking sick of it."- Kurt

"I think I was probably feeling a lot more contradictory a
year-and-a-half ago, because I was blindly fighting and not
even knowing what I was fighting for." -Kurt

This happened at a Foo Fighters concert some time ago...Fan: "Tom Grant is right"
(Dave smiles and gives a thumbs-up sign)

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

"Grunge is dead." -Kurt

"If this bird goes down, this is the safest place to be." -Krist
"Well, it's the Headbanger's Ball so I thought I'd wear a gown.
But he wouldn't wear his tux. He didn't give me a corsage, either." -Kurt
"No. Well, at least I asked you out" -Krist
"All drugs are a waste of time.They destroy your memory and your self-respect
and everything that goes along with your self-esteem....I've found they're a waste of time." -Kurt

"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

"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

"I knew when I first started taking heroin that it would become boring,
like marijuana, but you still have to do it, it becomes like breathing air!" -Kurt

"We were the chosen rejects, we were the ones who weren't picked
for the sports teams and the ones who liked to smoke cigarettes and listen to rock. " -Kurt

"I wouldn't be surprised if I was voted most likely to kill everyone at
a high school dance" -Kurt

"ALL ROCK MUSIC IS GOOD AS LONG AS IT HAS PASSION AND FEELING" -KURT

"I love everyone too much which makes me sad" -Kurt

"Kurt Cobain was a sweet, gentle, often very funny guy, who had a major
talent for rock and roll. What a shame it is that he could not salvage
anything for himself" -This quote was made by a presenter on the 'MTV
Tribute To Nirvana' documentary

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

"F#ck it, man!" - Dave

"We proved that alternative music is a viable commodity" -Krist

"A big "f@ck 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 knew that having a child I'd be overwhelmed and it's true... I can't
tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Francis. Holding
my baby is the best drug in the world." -Kurt

"What are they tuning? A harp? I thought we were a big rich rock band.
We should have a bunch of extra guitars." --Kurt

"I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to
regain the enthusiasm I once had as a child "- 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 F#CKING HATE YOU!! "- Kurt
Grunge, isn't that some gross shade of greenish orange?" -Kurt

"Flower sniffin, kitty pettin, baby kissin, Corporate rock whores." -Krist

"In Aberdeen, I hated my friends with a passion, because they were idiots." -Kurt

"Shut up" -Kurt
"Life is what you make of it, it's your crossword puzzle" -Kurt

"I'm glad it's something new, I guess people just got tired of Warrent " -Kurt

"Abort Christ!" -Kurt

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

"Jimmy crapped corn and I don't care.....alright." -Krist

"I'm changing my name to numchuck b#tch." -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

"I think it (making music) becomes less pleasurable and satisfying
when I think of it in terms of my "job." Writing is the one part that is not a job,
it's expression. Photo shoots, interviews...that's the real job part." -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 f*ck in the world." -Kurt

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

"Nirvana falls off the flower laughing" -Kurt

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."
One day, Dave and I were sitting around watching a documentary on babies
being born underwater." --Kurt
"I must be a complete Narcissist, I only appreciate things once they're gone" -Kurt

"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 had a really happy childhood until I was nine, then it was a classic
case of divorce"
-Kurt

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

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

"These people are just going to have to wait"-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

"Our music is naive, purposely naive" -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 yr. geetars" -Kurt

"We were staying in this house in Laurel Canyon with three mud-wrestling
girls for a week-and-a-half." --Dave

"I ate about 600 of them in a day, and I had an extreme feeling of beauty.
Those Mentos really work!" --Dave

"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

"Y'know, maybe one percent, of the people who are listening to "Nevermind",
that ever bought "Nevermind", maybe not one percent, but I'm just saying that
this, um, a small minority of people who are listening to our record now,
know about punk rock. A lot of people don't know about punk rock ..they think
about punk rock and they think of that Quincy episode where the guy threw the
brick off the building, and..."
-Dave

"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

"Whatever, in like, a month or two, we were out in the backyard shooting
stuff with BB guns, and breaking windows at the lottery building across the
street. It was fun, it was great, that apartment was great." -Dave

"As far as getting in the top 10 is concerned we don't care at all we
know it won't happen"-Kurt

"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

"I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of
people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused
as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. I don't want to be a f@cking spokesperson." -Kurt

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

"Guns 'n' f***ing Roses, Wembley f***ing Stadium, Sold f***ing Out, BIG
F***ING DEAL!!!" -Dave

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