Nirvana Quotes

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Candle, Flame, Blowing

Your mind is nirvana.
Bodhidharma

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
Marc Jacobs

Love, Music, Time

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

Before, Started, Finished

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
Dave Grohl

Family, Lost, Friends

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
Eddie Van Halen

Everyone, Appeal, Huge

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.
Eddie Vedder

Music, Time, Made

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
Gary Numan

Time, Problems, Though

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
Karen Armstrong

God, Same, Talk

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
Phil Donahue

Idea, Television, News

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.
Al Yankovic

Music, Thought, Point

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Adam Jones

Seriously, Grunge

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

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.
Carrie Brownstein

Rock, Black, Find

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 don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
Holly Near

Struggle, Keep, Silver

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.
Joel Madden

Life, Heard, Changed

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.
Greg Ginn

Someone, Mean, Try

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

Time, Remember, Last

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
Gary Cherone

Rock, Different, Story

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
Justin Townes Earle

Poetry, Point, Songs

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Kristin Hersh

Music, Play, Media

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.
Jon Fishman

America, Same, Big

If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain

Parents, Understand, Why

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.
Jerrry A. Webman

Time, Short, Growth

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.
Meredith Whitney

Past, Real, Debt

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
Audrina Patridge

Love, Music, Good

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