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Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain
Age: 27 †
Born: 1967
Born: February 20
Died: 1994
Died: April 8
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Guitarist
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Aberdeen
Washington
Kurt Donald Cobain
Kurdt Kobain
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I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.
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Don't read my diary when I'm gone.
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I don't want to be a spokesperson.
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We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!
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I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
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The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.
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I’m worse at what I do best.
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I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
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I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.
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I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.
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Music is first, lyrics are secondary.
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I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.
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I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
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It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.
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