Kurt Cobain Quotes

I've never loved listening to music.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

When you listen to music, you listen to music. You like it very much or not.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

I like talking about my music.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you think about the way things are put together, the way things are written as opposed to the showbusiness of something onstage, so no regrets there.

I got sick and tired of hearing bands that didn't mean anything to me. I mean, there are some bands out there that are good, but if you want to hear stuff you want to hear, you got to do it yourself.

That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.

I just like music.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

It's always nice to remember that there was a time when I loved something that I didn't know much about; it just reached my ears and moved me.

My first impression when I heard 'Heaven' was, 'Do not let anyone else have that song! I'm putting it on hold.' I knew it was special from the first time I heard it, and I thought my fans would love it as much as I did.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, 'Yes! I never knew it, but that's exactly what I want to hear.'

When I saw my box after that, it was even more special for me.

And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.