Frases

Estas são várias citações da banda ao longo da sua carreira. Muitas são piadas sarcásticas feitas em entrevistas ou em palco:

"Holding Frances (a filha) in my arms is the best drug in the world." - Kurt

"I'm here to impeach a president and kill a soap opera star" - Krist

"It's not some technical, masturbatory, 'see-what-I-can-do?' record." - Dave, acerca do Nevermind

"I don't want to be a spokesperson." - Kurt

"Look, it's a giant Hollywood cigarette full of all sorts of nicotine and enough tar to cover a parking lot this size!" - Krist

"You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia." - Kurt Cobain, 1992

"At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt

"Dick is short for Richard, and Rich is short for Richard too. So rich people are dicks" - Dave

"The name of our band is pronounced "Nir-vah-nah", not "Nir-van-na" - Dave

"Thank you all for coming, you've been a wonderful audience. Have a safe ride home. Remember not to drink and drive. Remember to vote. Remember not to jaywalk. Remember not to take drugs while in the company of a minor...or in front of narcotics officers." - Chris

"I was driving and 'Teen Spirit' came on the radio, and I thought 'God, that really sounds like crap!'" - Dave

"My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had" - Kurt

"I don't want my daughter to grow up and someday be hassled by kids at school...I don't want people telling her that her parents were junkies" - Kurt

"Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either."-Kurt

"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." -Kurt

"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" -Kurt

Grunge, isn't that some gross shade of greenish orange?" - Kurt

"Music is first, lyrics are secondary." - Kurt

"My name is Kurt and I sing and play the guitar and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection." - Kurt

"We're just a bar band, that's all we are." -Kurt

"We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves." -Kurt

"So all of my comments tonight are out of a book: How to be Witty at Parties." -Chris

O entrevistador pergunta ao Dave: "So why did you go to school anyway?"
Dave responde: "For lunch!"

Entrevistador: "How would you define the music of Nirvana?"
Kurt: "Punk rock, pop rock, hard pop rock."
Krist: "Hard pop rocks on the tip of your tongue, crinkling and crackling."

"One day, Dave and I were sitting around watching a documentary on babies being born underwater." - Kurt, acerca da ideia para a capa do Nevermind

Primeiro poema do Kurt: (ele escreveu-o com 9 anos)
'I hate mum,
I hate dad,
Dad hates mum,
Mum hates dad,
It just wants to make u feel so sad.'

"People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio" - Kurt

"My father said this to me -- "I know why you guys've sold so many records...the video shows a bunch of kids trashing a gymnasium!" and I mean...that sorta works like, "Nirvana! Spokesmen of the lost generation! They're telling you to go out and destroy your local gymnasium!" I don't really, I don't see it that way, I mean, like, I don't want to hold a responsibility of being a spokesman for anything! I can barely hold my own! I guess it's flattering, and I guess it's great that it acts like sorta, gives people a feeling of sorta like breaking out, and telling um, anyone and anything just to F-off!" -Dave

"We're going on tour this year and we're gonna have a whole new set with whole new songs so that we don't ever have to play Smells Like Teen Spirit again. I mean it's a great song but for many people it's like the only Nirvana song and that's upsetting" - Kris e Dave

"Our music has a lot of energy to it and in a smaller place energy translates better" - Dave

"Grunge is dead." - Kurt

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, "Nirvana" means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that is pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock" -Kurt

"There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'." -Kurt

"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. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else." -Kurt

"We felt like we could do whatever we wanted to do. There weren't any restrictions and it got wierd and jammy and we'd so these noisy new wave noise experimental jam things. We'd always start off the practice just jamming. We'd set up and plug in and jam for twenty minutes on nothing at all. There were probably thirty or forty songs we had written that are just gone." -Dave

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock." -Kurt

"My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years." -Kurt

"What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc." -Kurt

"By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not," Cobain diz. "There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath." -Kurt

"We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough." -Kurt

"Kurt would have been shocked by the lasting impact he's made." -Dave

"There is nothing I like more than pure underground music" - Kurt

"Anti, let me repeat that, Anti-rape song" - Kurt

"Guns 'n' fucking Roses, Wembley fucking Stadium, Sold fucking Out, BIG
FUCKING DEAL!!!" - Dave

"VANDALISM: Beautiful as a rock in a cop's face." -Kurt