Kurt Quotes

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Find, Almost, Stuff

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.
Layne Staley

Death, Person, Him

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
Billy Corgan

Great, Thought, Perfect

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.
Bono

Love, Good, Laugh

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Dave Grohl

Beauty, Music, Down

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
Courtney Love

Lucky, Gorgeous

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
James Marsters

Time, Rock, Passion

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
Courtney Love

Live, Through, Thought

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.
Courtney Love

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
Courtney Love

Good, Best, Person

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
Haruki Murakami

Time, True, Simple

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

Love, Wanna, Courtney

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Past, Training, Couple

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.
Krist Novoselic

Today, Wrong, Sweet

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'
John Green

Remember, Lives, Kid

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!
Shakira

Time, Teen, Forget

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
Krist Novoselic

Remember, Caring, Sweet

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.
St. Vincent

Honest, Wanted, Obsessed

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.
Haley Joel Osment

After, Try, Model

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.
Richie Sambora

Impossible, Off, Show

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.
Rosanna Arquette

Great, Writing, Soul

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
Frances Bean Cobain

Love, Person, Different

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.
Elvis Stojko

Trying, After, Off

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.
Elvis Stojko

Real, Agree, Intense

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
Justin Halpern

Humor, May, Read

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
Tabitha Soren

Music, Politics, Hard

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
Kurtis Blow

Wanted, Dj, Blow

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.
Chad Kroeger

Famous, Thought, Understand

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.
Andre Braugher

Different, Working, Worked

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
Kurt Schwitters

Together, Artist, Name

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