When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a complex emotional response to music, valuing artistic expression over technical perfection.
Kurt Cobain expresses a deep, often conflicting relationship with his music, specifically the album 'Nevermind.' Even though he critiques the production quality, he acknowledges the powerful emotional impact it has on him, revealing that art can evoke profound feelings regardless of its imperfections.
In practice
In a discussion about the emotional impact of music, this quote highlights the subjective nature of artistic appreciation.
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.
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.
When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
A lot of what acting is is paying attention.
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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