Monday, February 25, 2008

All for you



About Kurt Cobain

  • I remember Kurt for what he was, caring, generous and sweet.
  • I still dream about Kurt. Every time I see him in a dream, I’ll be amazed and I get this feeling that everyone else thinks he’s dead. It always feels totally real, probably because I’m a very vivid dreamer. But, in my dreams, Kurt’s usually been hiding - we’ll get together and I’ll end up asking him, ‘God, where have you been?’
  • He really didn't care about a lot of things that you're supposed to care about in the public arena. He really just didn't care.
  • In his way, he was the closest equivalent this decade and this generation of rock fans had to a John Lennon, and i dont make that comparison easily or impulsively.
  • I think one of the reasons so many people connected to him is they could tell his music was really pure and instinctual.
  • He said, 'Man, I just escaped from Exodus' [a treatment facility]. I didn't have any foresight that the guy was going to do what he did. I could tell he was bummed out, and I'd been that way before. We were at baggage claim, and I thought I'd ask him to come stay at my house. I turned around and he was gone... What if. Only if. A lot of my friends have died. If only he'd...
  • Lyrically I thought Kurt's writing was sort of cynical and that his words meant more than even he realized.
  • I cried, I don’t know why….I don’t like his music or anything….you know it’s awful about his baby I just……I don’t want to talk about that…..I just don’t think he has very many guts……I just don’t see why he wouldn’t want to see his daughter grow up…you know…that he wouldn’t be excited enough about that to not think of himself……people just start thinking of themselves too much. I don’t think it’s so much that they become conscious of the world of video and the world of this and that and a world of fame, they just think of themselves and no matter who you are and whether you’re a rock star or a garbage man, if you’re thinking of yourself all the time you’re not gonna be very good at what you do. With a baby you can tell them funny jokes when they’re two and they’ll love it, you can teach them about how everyone’s an idiot and they’ll love it…..but you know…..it doesn’t occur to a lot of people how intense that is…..how beautiful it is.
    • John Frusciante (Years later, the clean John, turned in something like a Nirvana fan, playing nirvana covers in his shows)
  • I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking, ‘God, this music is nuclear’, This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around. Nirvana made everything else look silly.
  • Most kings get driven so insane that they try to hit the same vein Kurt Cobain did
  • I remember the first time I saw him. I was 14 years old. I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video and instantly fell in love with him, even though I couldn’t see his face. I just wanted to see his face so much. After weeks of finding out anything I could about Nirvana, I saw his face — and he had a face like an angel. I loved him. He was my platonic love.
  • He had a touch most guitarists would kill for.
  • I only met Kurt once...I was touched by him. He seemed a little shell shocked as though he felt yet another show might drop at any time.
  • You know, I always thought I'd go first. I don't know why I thought that, it just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis - far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
  • I meet him a few times. He was an pretty cool guy.
  • In twenty years from now, when people will look back at the 90's, they wont remember the commercial giants like Ace of Base or Backstreet Boys, they will remember the artistic bands and artists like Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
  • I think one of Kurt's strengths was his simplicity. He knew how to write really catchy songs that said a lot without doing too much.
  • The only person I have any respect for as a songwriter over the last 10 years is Kurt Cobain. He was the perfect cross between Lennon and McCartney...but he was a miserable fuck at the same time.
  • He had a wonderful balance of raw, dangerous anger, but also he was this delicate, fun person...He was brilliant, but he played dumb. And you know, Kurt was funny as shit.
  • Kurt Cobain was one of the best of our time
  • I dont think there's any better expresion for that era (the 90s) then Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
  • Rage and aggression were elements for Kurt to play with as an artist, but he was profoundly gentle and intelligent.
  • He had life figured out really young. He knew life wasn’t always fair.
    • Wendy O'Connor (mother)
  • [He] was very talented, but he was passive-aggressive, kind of a whiny white guy, basically.
  • [If he] applied the same brain to his music that he applied to his drug-infested life, its reasonable to think that his music may not have made much sense either.
  • I think Kurt was one of the deepest thinkers we've had in popular music over the last 20 years and if anyone deserves to have his songs dwelled upon it's him.
  • Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
  • He really, really inspired me. He was so great. Wonderful. One of the best, but more than that. Kurt was one of the absolute best of all time for me.
  • I don't know why everyone on earth felt so close to that guy; he was beloved and endearing and inoffensive in some weird way. For all his screaming and all of his darkness, he was just lovable.


Songs about Kurt Cobain

  • It's a shame about your future
    It's a crime about your past.
    • The Fall (Kurt's Blues) by Cher
  • Blown away by fame
    We could all feel the shotgun hit the floor.
    • The Day Seattle Died by Cold
  • Help me please
    Burn the sorrow from your eyes
    Oh come on, be alive again
    Don't lay down and die
  • You can hear them crying down the lane
    From Portland to Maryland
    From Greece to Spain
  • They all stand straight and swing to the side
    No heads, but they feet still glide
    Take a step back, twist and dive
    I even seen Kurt Cobain get live
  • The whole world was crying when Kurt's gun went bang
    When Eazy-E died though, it wasn't no thang
    Rapper dies of A.I.D.S. but you hardly mention
    Rocker blows his face off and becomes a legend
    Heroin and a shotgun, a hero is made
    Maybe I should do that shit so J can get paid
  • Don't feel like home. He's a little out
    And all this words elope. There's nothing like your poem
    A scratching voice all alone. There's nothing like your baritone
    It's nothing as it seems. The little that he needs. It's home
    The little that he sees is nothing he concedes. It's home
  • A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on...
    But theres a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...
  • There was this boy who played in a rock n' roll band
    And he wasn't half bad at saving the world
    She said he could do no right, so he took his life
    The story is true
  • First time I saw you,
    You were sitting backstage in a dress
    A perfect mess.
  • He gathered up his loved ones
    And he brought them all around
    To say, "Goodbye, nice try."
  • He lies in an empty room
    With his hair burnt to the back
    It sure sounds funny
    When you say his name like that.
  • Toward another, he has gone
    To breathe an air beyond his own.
  • He rocked the United States by flying all over the country and playing that rock and roll
    He is a good singer
    He is my rock star
  • Too late,
    He sleeps with angels
    Too soon,
    He's always on someone's mind.

Songs which mention Kurt Cobain

  • Thanks to Elvis and Kurt Cobain
    the world will never be the same
  • My sister, she says she knows Elvis
    She knows Jesus, John Lennon, and Kurt Cobain personally
  • I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
    And the night Jeff Buckley died
    And the night Kurt Cobain died
    And the night John Lennon died.
  • What of Kurt Cobain, will his presence still remain?
  • A whole generation of kids blowin' out their fuckin' brains to this Kurt Cobain music
    • Devils's Night by D12
  • And going for the clincher, a girl cries out in vain
    How Jesus lived 6 years longer than Kurt Cobain
    And Jesus' hair was longer, and Jesus' arms were stonger
    And Jesus's eyes were bluer, and Jesus' thoughts were truer
    • Jesus Lived 6 Years Longer Than Kurt Cobain by The Floors
  • And a memory that can ease your pain
    Like a melody from Kurt Cobain.
  • Way out in Seattle
    Young Kurt Cobain
    Snuck out to the greenhouse
    Put a bullet in his brain.
  • Keep them high like Kurt Cobain.
  • Johnny wishes he was famous
    Spends his time alone in the basement
    With Lennon and Cobain
    And a guitar and a stereo.
  • Having conversations with Kurt Cobain
    I'm drowning my fears in the acid rain.
  • And so I parallel the brains of Cobain.
  • Yeah the whole byrd gangs in here like Kurt Cobain was here.
  • Kurt Cobain, he never had a chance, you know.
    Incurable romantics never do.
    • Heart by Stars (alternate lyric)
  • Disturbed by the fame
    Just like Kurt Cobain.
  • I'll spend my days with J.F.K., Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, and Lawrence Welk,
    And Kurt Cobain, Kojak, Mark Twain and Jimi Hendrix's poltergeist.
  • I'll finish with a bang, like in Cobain's biography
  • A daily dose of eMpTyV
    Will flush your mind right down the drain
    Shannon Hoon and Kurt Cobain,
    Make yourself a household name
  • Maybe if I put a bullet in my brain
    They'd remember me like Kurt Cobain
    And the parasites on MTV
    Would wipe their eyes and act like they knew me
  • My favorite color is red, like the blood shed
    from Kurt Cobain's head, when he shot himself dead
  • Ne me parle pas de travail à la chaîne
    Je veux pas finir comme Kurt Cobain
    (Don't talk to me about working on the assembly line/I don't wanna end like Kurt Cobain)
  • Kurt Cobain was so young
    Sad to see this poet's gone.
  • And they told me
    The times have changed
    Cause' our parents had Hendrix, Janis and Jim
    But what about River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain.
  • Y hoy me encuentro tan solo y triste
    cual hoja al viento
    quisiera llorar, quisiera morir,
    como Kurt Cobain, de sentimiento.
    (And today I am so alone and sad
    like a leaf in the wind
    I wish to cry, I wish to die
    like Kurt Cobain, in feeling)
    • Decadencia(en vivo) - Heroes del Silencio
  • Любой, имеющий в доме ружье приравнивается к Курту Кобэйну,

Любой, умеющий читать между строк обречен иметь в доме ружье...
(Anyone with a shotgun at home equates to Kurt Cobain,
Anyone able to read between the lines is destined to have a shotgun at home)

    • Пой мне еще - Сплин
  • So I watched pay per view and polished my shoes and my gun

Was diggin' on Kurt Cobain sing about lithium

    • "Me and My Moneky" - Robbie Williams
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