Kurt Cobain Quotes

I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing, and playing what you want.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends, they’re in my head.

I’d like to be everything they’re not.

I’d rather be hated for being real than loved for being fake.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I’m not like them, but I can pretend.

The worst crime is faking it.

I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I wanted to have the adulation of John Lennon, but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr.

The media portrays me as being wild and crazy. But I’m not. I just like to have fun.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.

You’re not different, you’re just being used. Used up, sort of.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

The worst crime is doing something for profit alone.

I’ve tried to be more productive in the context of the band’s name and origin.

I don’t want to be a rock star. I just want to be the equivalent of what Ringo Starr was to the Beatles.

I’ve never been really a big fan of heavy metal.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

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

I am not a great fan of violence, and I never have been.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

When I was a teenager, I used to have posters of bands on my wall, and I tried to look like them.

I’d like to see myself as a beautiful butterfly.

Rock ‘n’ roll band? That’s ambition. Being a poet? That’s an ambition. Writing in my journal? That’s not.

Nobody dies a virgin… Life fucks us all.

Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not after you.

One of the only people I’d ever envy as being truly, genuinely, more talented than I am.

I have to admit I’ve always had a fascination with Marilyn Monroe… She was a very misunderstood figure, and still is.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Heroin is a really strong drug; I mean strong in every sense of the word.

They laugh at us because we’re different. We laugh at them because they’re all the same.

It’s satisfying enough to play in a punk band, because I know for sure that we’ve done something of real value.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I don’t even know what I want to be doing in 5 years. I’m just taking each day as it comes.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

The worst crime is faking it.

I’m not a person who likes to be alone.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.