110+ Kurt Cobain Quotes On Being Different, Depression And Art

Kurt Cobain was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist who rose to fame as the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. He was a popular figure in alternative rock and is often remembered as one of the most iconic and influential rock musicians in the history of modern music. He tragically died by suicide in April 1994 at the age of 27. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kurt Cobain on love, life, being different.

Top 10 Kurt Cobain Quotes

1. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
2. dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.
3. I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
4. 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.
5. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
6. I hate myself, and I want to die
7. The worst crime is faking it.
8. If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.
9. If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
10. If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Kurt Cobain Image Quotes

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. — Kurt Cobain

I hate myself, and I want to die — Kurt Cobain

The worst crime is faking it. — Kurt Cobain

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool. — Kurt Cobain

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human. — Kurt Cobain

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. — Kurt Cobain

She eyes me like a pisces. — Kurt Cobain

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain Short Quotes

• Rather be dead than cool.
• Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
• It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
• I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
• She eyes me like a pisces.
• Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
• Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
• I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
• I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Love

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — 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

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

Once you fall in love... It's different. — 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

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Life

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. — 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

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality. — Kurt Cobain

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill. — Kurt Cobain

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. — Kurt Cobain

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

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 Cobain

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all. — Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Being Different

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 knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. — 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 want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad. — Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Friends

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something. — Kurt Cobain

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. — Kurt Cobain

A friend is nothing but a known enemy. — Kurt Cobain

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl. — Kurt Cobain

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend — Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Happiness

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

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

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

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

You can't buy happiness — Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Rock

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. — Kurt Cobain

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away. — Kurt Cobain

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

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me. — Kurt Cobain

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star. — Kurt Cobain

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me. — 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

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record. — Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain Quotes About Music

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

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music — 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

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound. — Kurt Cobain

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

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

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

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. — Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain Quotes About World

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. — Kurt Cobain

The world sucks, people are not true — Kurt Cobain

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. — Kurt Cobain

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world. — Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain Quotes About People

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you. — Kurt Cobain

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded. — Kurt Cobain

What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc. — Kurt Cobain

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them. — Kurt Cobain

I really miss being able to blend in with people. — Kurt Cobain

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. — Kurt Cobain

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 Cobain

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes. — Kurt Cobain

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

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. — Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain Famous Quotes And Sayings

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. — Kurt Cobain

I hate myself, and I want to die — Kurt Cobain

The worst crime is faking it. — Kurt Cobain

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years. — 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

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human. — Kurt Cobain

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. — Kurt Cobain

She eyes me like a pisces. — Kurt Cobain

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child. — Kurt Cobain

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. — Kurt Cobain

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. — Kurt Cobain

I don't care what you think unless it is about me... — 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

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Kurt Cobain

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away. — Kurt Cobain

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. — Kurt Cobain

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

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. — Kurt Cobain

The sun is gone, but I have a light. — Kurt Cobain

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had 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 Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world. — Kurt Cobain

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not. — Kurt Cobain

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot! — Kurt Cobain

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. — Kurt Cobain

Its better to burn out than fade away. — Kurt Cobain

Believe everything you read — Kurt Cobain

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. — 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

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

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

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. — Kurt Cobain

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me. — Kurt Cobain

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead. — Kurt Cobain

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. — Kurt Cobain

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory. — Kurt Cobain

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. — Kurt Cobain

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. — Kurt Cobain

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. — Kurt Cobain

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection. — Kurt Cobain

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath. — Kurt Cobain

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah — 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

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 Cobain

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons. — Kurt Cobain

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out. — Kurt Cobain

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle. — Kurt Cobain

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

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported. — Kurt Cobain

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 Cobain

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern. — Kurt Cobain

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks. — Kurt Cobain

Life Lessons by Kurt Cobain

1. Kurt Cobain taught us to be true to ourselves and to never compromise our values and beliefs even in the face of adversity.
2. He also showed us the importance of staying humble and to never take success for granted.
3. Lastly, he demonstrated that it is okay to be vulnerable and to express our emotions openly and honestly.