David Draiman Quotes

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

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

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

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.

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 it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

I never really followed grunge.

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

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.

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.

We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

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.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

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

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.

I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the 'Unplugged' album. It's so great.

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.