Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep affection for a particular guitar model despite its flaws.
Kurt Cobain's admiration for the Fender Mustang highlights a paradox in which something deemed subpar in quality can still hold a special place in someone's heart. It reflects his appreciation for the unique sound and character of the guitar, suggesting that the emotional value of an object can outweigh its practical shortcomings.
In practice
Discussing music preferences in a band interview.
I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
The future of rock belongs to women.
I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures β not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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