#nirvana

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

— Dave Grohl

#doing #even #finished #i #nirvana

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

#became #could #during #easily #family

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

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard

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

#because #become #brought #comfort #did

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

#definition #doing #external #external world #freedom

He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough. ↗

— Antony John

#heroin #kallie #kurt-cobain #music #nirvana

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #irrationality #nirvana #reason #society

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge. ↗

— Adam Jones

#i #nirvana #seriously #think

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

#along #appreciating #artistry #band #being

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

— Gary Cherone

#different #jam #king #nirvana #out