Jens Lekman 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 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.

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.

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

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

I don't really like Nirvana that much.

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

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

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

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.

I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.

I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

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 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.

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