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Kurt Cobain Quotes

“He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.”

Beauty Music Heroin Nirvana Kurt Cobain Kallie

Book:Five Flavors of Dumb

Source: Five Flavors of Dumb

“You know, Aerosmith will be the thing that kills off your music. Not them directly, mind you. What they represent. Bands are going to sell out. Whatever you think is rebellious now will be used to sell you laxatives in a decade. You'll all get old and conservative. Your Saint Cobain put it well: 'Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old.' It's all about money. You'll get that. You think you are edgy now, but I've seen people like you start to lose their hair and then lose their minds.”

Music Aging Rebellion Edgy Selling Out Aerosmith Baldness Bands Kurt Cobain

Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“¿Quién soy yo para buscarte así, Cobain, incluso si la cartomancia seguramente sea placebo? ¿Quién soy yo para darte ese lugar de padre y de guía y de rey sucio al que obedeceré siempre con la parte más triste de mí? No soy nadie y, sin embargo, lo lloro y le escribo, finalmente, esta declaración desorbitada, de fuego fatuo, instigando más vergüenza porque la realidad es que quisiera parar, pero solo sé escribir.”

Grief Grief And Loss Nirvana Fangirl Necromancy Kurt Cobain

Book:El día que quise hablar con Kurt Cobain

Source: El día que quise hablar con Kurt Cobain

“Sometimes, you can't save someone from themselves.”

Death Suicide Nirvana Kurt Cobain

Author:Dave Grohl

“Its like what Kathleen said about how in school there was this class that you went to and they were teaching the girls how to prepare themselves for rape and when you looked outside and saw the rapers outside playing football and you said "they are the ones who should be in here being taught not to rape".”

Feminism Patriarchy Rape Self Defense Sexual Assault Double Standard Kurt Cobain

Book:Journals

Source: Journals

“That night she listened to the Nirvana album again. In Kurt Cobain's voice, Irene heard a perfect and beautiful misery, a voice stretched so thin with loneliness and wanting that it should break. But his voice didn't break, and there was a kind of joy in it too.”

Hope Suicide Kurt Cobain

Book:The Sun Is Also a Star

Source: The Sun Is Also a Star

“Cobain is not the voice of our generation. He’s the angst. He is our frustration. Our anger.”

Rock Music Generation X Grunge Gen X 1990s Kurt Cobain Genx Young Adult Angst

Book:Lost in ‘96

Source: Lost in ‘96

“I loved him.' 'You didn't know him.' 'Of course I knew him. I listened to him sing every single day. The things he sings about, that's him. I know him better than I know you. He understood me.”

Singers Idols Nirvana Celebrities Idolisation Kurt Cobain

Book:About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“Nirvana's music dragged you across the floor. You felt every crack; every speck of dirt. Their songs helped you locate the places where you ached, and in that awareness of your hurting, you suddenly knew that the bleakness was collective - not merely your own.”

Love Hurt Music Depression Melancholy Hurting Nirvana Bleakness Kurt Cobain

Book:Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Source: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl