Cash Quote by Greg Ginn

The R.E.M and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the…

— Greg Ginn

What Nirvana's success means is that certain radio stations now have their ear more cocked to bands like us; they're more open to playing…

— Lee Ranaldo

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

— Nikki Sixx

I just feel like bands with the same people, no matter how different the band themselves thinks it is, the listeners go, 'Oh, yeah,…

— Pat Smear

Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers,…

— Kim Thayil

I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest…

— Nick Zinner

I don't really like Nirvana that much.

— Frances Bean Cobain

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

— Paul Banks

I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The…

— Dave Grohl

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still…

— Kristin Hersh

I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between…

— Bruce Pavitt