Great Quotes From Grunge Rock Artists

Kurt Cobain: "Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want."

Eddie Vedder: "The best songs are the ones that make you feel something."

Courtney Love: "I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."

Jerry Cantrell: "That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate with people that inspired you to make music."

Layne Staley: "Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy tale life, they lead to suffering."

Chris Cornell: "At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are."

Krist Novoselic: "Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it."

Dave Grohl: "I looked at Krist and Kurt as soul mates. The two had such a beautiful, unspoken understanding of each other."

Melissa Auf Der Maur: "I never grew up thinking I could make a living playing music, you know?"

Nirvana Quotes

Kurt Cobain: "We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves."

Dave Grohl: "I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started."

Krist Novoselic: "This band is a real collaboration, and I'm grateful to anybody who can appreciate our music."

Kurt Cobain: "Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird."

Dave Grohl: "From one generation to the next, the Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time."


Krist Novoselic: "If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar."

Kurt Cobain: "we sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone."

Dave Grohl: "When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine, it kind of sucks the life out of music."

Krist Novoselic: "I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands."

Kurt Cobain: "The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we open our mouths and put our foot in sometimes."

Dave Grohl: "I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?"

Krist Novoselic: "Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart."

27 Club

Musical Stars Who Died At The Age Of 27

Robert Johnson: Blues
man, died Aug. 16, 1938 possibly from strychnine poisoning.

Brian Jones: Guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Drowned in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969.

Jimi Hendrix: Guitarist. Chocked on his own vomit, Sept. 18, 1970.

Janis Joplin: Lead singer for Big Brother And The Holding Company. Died from a heroin overdose Oct. 4, 1970.

Jim Morrison: Lead Singer For The Doors. Died from heart failure on July 3, 1971.


Peter Ham: Member of the rock group Badfinger. Committed suicide on Apr. 24, 1975.

Kurt Cobain: Lead Singer For Nirvana. Also committed suicide. He died on Apr. 5, 1994.

Amy Winehouse: The Latest member of the 27 club, she died July 23, 2011.

Famous Left-Handed Musicians

Paul McCartney: Bass guitarist and songwriter from The Beatles. His  Hofner bass is one of the most famous instruments in rock history.

Ringo Star: Drummer for The Beatles. Is left-handed but plays a right handed drum kit.

Dick Dale: King of the surf guitars, plays left-handed with the strings backward.

Jimi Hendrix: The most famous left-handed guitarist. Died in 1970.

Tony Iommi: Guitarist From Black Sabbath.

Phil Collins: Drummer for Genesis and solo superstar.

Iggy Pop: One time front man for The Stooges, later successful solo artist.

Bun E. Carlos: Drummer from the band Cheap Trick. Plays both left and right.

Elliot Easton: Guitarist from The Cars.

Kurt Cobain: Lead singer, Guitarist and main songwriter of the Seattle grunge rock band Nirvana. Died in 1994.

Quotes About The Beatles

Timothy Leary: I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Bob Dylan: They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go.

Billy Joel: The Beatles were the band that made me realise it was possible to make a living as a musician. When I heard the Beatles, I said "that's what I want to do".

Gene Simmons: The Beatles were a band, of course, and I loved their music. But they were also a cultural force that made it OK to be different. They didn't look like everyone else, and they still made the girls scream.

Dave Grohl: The three of us (Nirvana) grew up listening to the Beatles, then classic rock and punk. Somehow it all came together.

Liam Gallagher: I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.

Steven Spielberg: I resented the Beatles at first because it wasn't a fad I discovered for myself. I wasn't a Beatles fan until I listen to the White Album and became an instant convert.

Leonard Bernstein: Three bars of A Day In The Life still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities.

Johnny Ramone: my favorite artists have always been Elvis and the Beatles, and they still are.

Roger Daltrey: All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

Kurt Cobain Quotes

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all."

"If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop."

"I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me."

"I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want."

"I've always had a problem with the average macho man. They've always been a threat to me."

"Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle."

"Jocks have completely taken over music. Just to get back at them, I'm going to start playing basketball."

"I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar, hide in the back and just play."

"It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than be loved for who I am not."