Kurt Donald Cobain (1967 – 1994)
Lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana.
He had a touch most guitarists would kill for.
I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.
I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance.
We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal.
I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.
I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
And the night Jeff Buckley died
And the night Kurt Cobain died
And the night John Lennon died.
Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.
I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against [them].
If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.
Keep them high like Kurt Cobain.
Hello, we're major label corporate rock sell outs.
And I want it so bad I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins.
I can't remember the good old days.
People were trying to call me to do interviews on the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. They want me to say some poignant shit about some poor guy who blew his head off. It's just like, "Give me a fuckin' break, man"...Just say the guy made some good records, and let's get on with it.
This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me.
I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking, "God, this music is nuclear," This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around. Nirvana made everything else look silly.
It's a shame about your future
It's a crime about your past.
He's your archetypal small guy - wiry, defiantly working class and fiery.
Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old.
I'll spend my days with J.F.K., Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, and Lawrence Welk,
And Kurt Cobain, Kojak, Mark Twain and Jimi Hendrix's poltergeist.