My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
KURT COBAINPunk 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.
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Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.
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Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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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.
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I just hope I don’t become so blissful I become boring. I think I’ll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself.
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They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
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I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.
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I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you’re an idiot!
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I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn’t identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
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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.
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If you read, you’ll judge.
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Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let’s all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
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Music is first, lyrics are secondary.
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I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
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