Hair Quote by Henry Rollins

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely…

— Pete Wentz

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

— Jens Lekman

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

— Paul Banks

“Jeff Gilbert: With Nirvana's success, all of the sudden, heavy-metal chicks who'd been dressing in spandex and fishnets and stiletto boots, now they started…

— Mark Yarm

I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

— Chris McCaughan

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

— Nikki Sixx

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but…

— John Sebastian

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

— Toyah Willcox

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress…

— Amanda Palmer

If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's…

— Buzz Osborne

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

— Nat Wolff

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

— Daniel Johns