Buzz Osborne Quotes

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

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

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

I never really followed grunge.

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

I thought the grunge scene was cool. This is going to sound weird, but I remember doing a concert at a tavern in the mid-'80s with Nirvana.

A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.

I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.