50+ Top Best Famous Kurt Cobain Quotes [2022]

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer, songwriter, and musician, known as the guitarist, songwriter, and frontman of the rock band Nirvana. Throughout his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona, Cobain’s songs opened the thematic meetings of mainstream rock music. He was usually advertised as a spokesman of Generation X and is supposed to be one of the most famous musicians in the history of alternative rock.

Cobain began an interest in music at a young age. According to his aunt Mari, he started singing at the age of two. At age four, he started playing the piano and singing, writing a song about a trip to a local park.

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Top Famous Kurt Cobain Quotes

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your mind and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“During my life, I’ve always been close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a feeble, feminine person anyhow, so I assumed I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school beautiful at all. ” – Kurt Cobain

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“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 reply to the 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. ” – Kurt Cobain

“I was exhausted of acting that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having attention.” – Kurt Cobain

“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“If you die you’re quite 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.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“My mother inspired me to be creative. It was written in a deal at an early age that I would be an artist.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I know that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there are more things to life than living out your rock & roll identification so righteously.” – Kurt Cobain

“I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they’re out there and it bothers me.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“It’s better to burn out than fade away.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“If you die you’re totally happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not scared of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the biggest hope I’ve got.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I really miss being able to combine in with people.” – Kurt Cobain

“There’s great in all of us and I guess I just love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Youth has to challenge evil.” – Kurt Cobain

“The sun is gone, but I have a light.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I’ve never been a very rich person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself writing on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in pure form.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I had a really great childhood up until I was nine, then a perfect case of divorce really hit me.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Just because you’re neurotic doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” – Kurt

“I’m so glad because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.” – Kurt Cobain

“I began being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.” – Kurt Cobain

“I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so occurs that there’s a bunch of people that are involved with what I have to say. I find that intimidating at times because I’m just as complicated as most people. I don’t have the explanations for anything.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“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.” – Kurt Cobain

“If you’re a mean person you’re going to come back as a bug and eat poop.” – Kurt Cobain

“No one is scared of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer.” – Kurt Cobain

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, rather of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I utilize bits and pieces of others characters to form my own.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Thank you for the failure. I need it for my art.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Music is first, lyrics are secondary.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I never desired to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“You can’t buy peace.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Music is energy. A mood, environment. Feeling.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“I don’t care what you think except it is about me.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“If my eyes could reveal my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.” – Kurt Cobain

 

“Holding my baby is the best medicine in the world.” – Kurt Cobain