Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Aberdeen
- Educated at
- Aberdeen High School
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life."
"Punk Rock is, to me, dead and gone. We just wanted to pay tribute to something that helped us to feel as though we had crawled out of the dung heap of conformity."
"I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive."
"This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me."
"In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots."
"I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine."
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Timeline
1967
Born
Birth1994
Died
Death
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