Marc Martel Quotes

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

I never really followed grunge.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things.

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.

I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to Seattle that it seemed like a local thing.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.