Ancestor Quote by Kurt Cobain

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

— Dominic West

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much…

— Patti Smith

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known…

— Brett Morgen

I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and…

— Michael Stipe

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

— Courtney Love

Cobain's back, Cobain's back, got these crazy white boys yellin' Cobain's back.

— Machine Gun Kelly

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota…

— Richie Havens

You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the…

— Seth Avett

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans…

— Alex Wagner

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

— Matthew McConaughey

My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish.

— Brendan Hunt