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

— Nikki Sixx

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

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

The REM 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

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

— Jens Lekman

A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

— Chris Cornell

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

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

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

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

— Paul Banks

Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're…

— Richard Patrick

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream…

— Krist Novoselic