Kurt Donald Cobain (1967 – 1994)
Lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana.
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally.
Maybe if I put a bullet in my brain
They'd remember me like Kurt Cobain
And the parasites on MTV
Would wipe their eyes and act like they knew me .
I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena.
I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack but the last to admit that it hasn't been rewarding.
What's the matter with all you people at the back, did you come here to see Gloria Estefan?
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.
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.
He had a touch most guitarists would kill for.
He's your archetypal small guy - wiry, defiantly working class and fiery.
Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old.
It's a shame about your future
It's a crime about your past.