Song Quotes by Courtney Love

13 Song quotes by Courtney Love

Courtney Love’s reflections on song cut straight to the bone, mixing raw edge with a hint of vulnerability. Though brief, these thirteen lines give a taste of how she sees music as both weapon and solace.

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I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

Courtney Love

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I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

Courtney Love

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Four inch nails is more like it!

Courtney Love

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I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

Courtney Love

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Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

Courtney Love

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I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

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We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a…

Courtney Love

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Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could…

Courtney Love

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There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars…

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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than…

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Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in…

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The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band…

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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

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In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

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The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

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If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.

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Four inch nails is more like it!

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No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.

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I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt, I had the best.

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Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play…

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My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all…

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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew…

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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

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But, you know, all good rock is easy.

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