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“Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint! Forever in debt to your priceless advice.”
― Kurt Cobain

“There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge)”
― Kurt Cobain

“I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.”
― Ozzy Osbourne, I Am Ozzy

“Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn’t want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it’s cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there’s a hell, they’ll go there.”
― Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

“Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.”
― Kurt Cobain

“To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Nobody dies a virgin...life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Carpe Manga”
― Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain Quotes

“I looked more like Kurt Cobain than ever, except I doubt Cobain ever wore a shirt that read: WIGGLES ROCK & ROLL PRESCHOOL TOUR! The really disturbing thing was that they made shirts like that in my size.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.”
― Courtney Love

“Come as you are. As you were. As I want you to be.”
― Kurt Cobain Nirvana - but I think it could also be spoken by Luke in my book Guilt Trip.

“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.”
― Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain