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Kurt Cobain


Born
in Aberdeen, Washington, The United States
February 20, 1967

Died
April 05, 1994

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Arts & Photography

Influences
William S. Burroughs, John Lennon, K Records, Evel Knievel, Univox ...more


Kurt Donald Cobain, was an American musician who served as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana.

Cobain formed Nirvana in 1987 with Krist Novoselic. Within two years, the band became a fixture of the burgeoning Seattle grunge scene. In 1991, the arrival of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s (glam metal, arena rock, and dance-pop) and toward grunge and alternative rock. The music media eventually awarded the song "anthem-of-a-generation" status, and, with it, Cobain was labeled a "spokesman" for Generation X.

During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the media pre ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 18,640 ratings · 881 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors
Journals
4.02 avg rating — 17,961 ratings — published 2002 — 50 editions
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Nirvana
4.35 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1995
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Odeio-me e quero morrer
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Nirvana - Nevermind: Revise...
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Kurt Cobain Quotes
4.48 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010
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Nirvana: Unplugged in New Y...
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4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995
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Nirvana In Utero: Guitar TA...
4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Artwork
4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Nirvana - Unplugged in New ...
4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1995
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Nirvana
4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
― Kurt Cobain
tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance
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“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain
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