Best 172 quotes of Kurt Cobain on MyQuotes

all i want...is mac and cheese

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

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

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

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

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

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

And I swear that I don't have a gun.

Believe everything you read

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.

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

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

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

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.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

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.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

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.

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

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.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

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

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

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

If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

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

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

I hate myself, and I want to die

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.