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Courtney Love

86 quotes

“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On women playing rock music, quoted in 1991, from This is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock (2008), p. 71
“I've always been provocative toward guys like that. They're lame, and they make it not fun for nerdy guys and nerdy girls and uncool people. They're like these self-righteous jock pricks up at the front, and they come there just to razz you— to tell you that they have a boner, or that they want to see your tits, or that you're ugly, or that you're a whore or something. They're ridiculous.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding disruptive male audience members at concerts (1991), Not Bad for a Girl documentary (1995)
“If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks about her ambitions early in her career (1991), Not Bad for a Girl documentary (1995)
“I try to place [beautiful imagery] next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her songwriting and lyrics, from interview with Everett True (June 1991). In article "Hole in Sidelines" from Melody Maker, p. 8.
“Writing songs has a lot to do with your sexuality. I danced for awhile and just being around that made me realize what people use. And if you grow up blessed with a certain beauty or a certain intelligence that enhances your beauty, you can get into a better position in life.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On songwriting and beauty, The Guardian (December 11, 1991)
“The American male runs half of the global world and grows up on rock music from day one. If you can alter the psyche of someone who's growing up to be a rapist or a total misogynist, you're creating values and instead of making the void bigger, you're making it smaller.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her goals in songwriting, The Guardian (December 11, 1991)
“You know what? I was doing Loveline on KROQ, and Lydia [Lunch] sent this fax in that said like, “You’ll never be smarter than me. Stop trying to copy me." So I read it out over the air and I said, "Lydia, I’ve been copying you since I fucking heard of you. You’re the best thing on the planet. I give you more tribute than anybody else and I love you and I wish you wouldn’t be so mad at me. And, Lydia, if there’s anything I can do for you – if there’s any philosophical, tax deductible thing that I can contribute to – you know how to get in touch with me.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Lydia Lunch, Rollerderby fanzine (October 1993)
“Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On eating habits, Rollerderby fanzine (October 1993)
“Does that make you happy, Mr. Rock & Roll Fantasy? You know what? Eddie Vedder’s gonna live to be 98. How’s that make you feel, huh? I love you, come back. You come back! You love us. You love me, don’t you? You love Frances. Where are you? Are you happier now?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: April 10, 1994 at Kurt Cobain's public memorial at Seattle Center's Flag Pavilion, Entertainment Weekly (April 22, 1994)
“[Internet forums are] kind of fun and stuff, but what's really weird is how they fucking give such a shit about how I'm spelling. It's like, what, I worked to be a clerical worker? I didn't take typing class, assholes.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On interacting with fans in online forums, interview with Nardwuar (15 November 1994)
“My thing is 'Don't fuck with me.' In real life, real real life, I'm supersensitive, but people tend to think I'm not vulnerable because I don't act vulnerable.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her reputation, Rolling Stone (15 December 1994)
“My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her career and ambition, Rolling Stone (15 December 1994)
“I didn't ever really talk until I started hanging out in '80 or '81 with the drag queens at the Metropolis [or Met, a gay new wave club] in Portland. I was very, very quiet. So much so that at one point when I was very young I was diagnosed as a probable autistic. And then I started hanging around with bitchy drag queens and with [my friends] Ursula and Robin, and they basically raised me. I found my inner bitch and I ran with her.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being antisocial as a teenager, "Endless Love", Spin (February 1995)
“With me and Kurt, it was either Bonnie and Clyde, Sid and Nancy, or mommy. That's where it got at the end, but the rest of the time it was equal. The equality was based on Bonnie and Clyde, which is fucking goddamn fun. And Romeo and Juliet. But it was also Hamlet and Hamlet. Not Hamlet and Ophelia. These two fucking Hamlets sitting around.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her relationship with husband Kurt Cobain, "Endless Love", Spin (February 1995)
“I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, "I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate," and I said, "But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On punching Kathleen Hanna backstage at Lollapalooza, interview with Nardwuar (5 July 1995)
“I wore a dress that was so restricting and shoes that were five inches high, I could barely stage-dive. Then I got the best write-ups, for being feminine, I guess. I couldn’t move well and I was restrained, which equals great review. That’s pretty horrid.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her attire during live performances, Billboard (30 March 1996)
“I used to see media on Althea [Flynt] and she was very wild looking. She had a mohawk and she published Hustler—I thought that was crazy. But when you study her, she was so innocent and frail and sort of birdlike, and sweet. She stayed sweet until she died, but I don't know what happened for her to get into drugs or the things she got into.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On playing Althea Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Linehan (December 1996)
“The deal with fashion is that proletariat male rock critics have a real Bruce Springsteen problem with denim boomer issues. We as females have thousands and thousands of years of fashion in our DNA. We want to wear nice fucking clothes—it's part of what we do, so I don't have an issue with it. If you have an opportunity to go to the Oscars in a fabulous gown, you're gonna fucking take it. I don't have to listen to a rule. Who made that rule? Some dumb guy.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On fashion, press interview for Celebrity Skin (1998)
“Releasing those songs into the void, and not having the void answer back, led all of us to splinter off and attempt to make our mark by deconstructing. Instead of going forward with my tunesmithing, I went back to the beginning. And that’s what Pretty on the Inside was about. I said, ‘I’m not going to follow any of the songwriting values that I’ve been learning for a good seven years. Instead, I’m going to set up on my own land and make my own stake, and see where it goes.’ And the next place that takes me is Seattle, where what was happening was so heavy, and so intense.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the failure of her first band, Sugar Babydoll, and the subsequent beginnings of her career, interview with The Georgia Straight (1999)
“Do you remember when you were young, and you’d stare at someone on-stage and think ‘Oh my God—he looked right at me?’ I do, so I have this kind of rescue-fantasy thing. When I see kids in the audience I think, ‘Okay, that’s me, and it would be kind of cool if the person on-stage would come down and save me.’ I’m not going to be able to save every one of them, but I’ll do my best, because I genuinely like kids. If I didn’t have my lust for my art, I probably would have ended up working with them.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her teenaged fans, interview with The Georgia Straight (1999)
“My brother, Toby, is six-foot-six, [and] he [went to] Vassar; my other brother, Brown; my sister, without one penny from me or my [step]dad, NYU Law, number one in her class—Jesus, it's such a functional family, I don't know where I came from.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her siblings, The David Letterman Show (17 March 2004)
“[Crack] used to be called freebase when white rich people did it. Then it got sold in batches, and white rich people were still doing it, and it was still called freebase. And then all of a sudden this guy named Ricky Freeway Ross started making it and he happened to be black, and— everything is political— and, then it turned into "crack.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining the racist politics of the history of cocaine; The Howard Stern Show (2005)
“I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On race and the music industry, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
“We choose convenience over individuality every time—every time.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Americans' consumption of popular music, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
“I finally learned from Fred Durst, who is [of] my generation, that "selling out" means every ticket at The Forum got sold. I don't think Britney [Spears] and Christina [Aguilera] sit there agonizing over their record sales. The [term] "sell out" needs to be eradicated from the language, because if you don't "sell out," guess what? An asshole will.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the notion of "selling out" in the music industry, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
“I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On choosing to play with women in Hole (with the exception of Eric Erlandson) and whether it's a feminist decision, Spin (October 2005)
“Look, you've got these highly intelligent imperious girls, but who told them it was their undeniable American right not to be offended? Being offended is part of being in the real world. I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV! And, frankly, it wasn't very good music.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Riot grrrl, Spin (October 2005)
“I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot—I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On people she is attracted to, The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
“I do remember not having good social skills [as a child], although I learned them later. I learned them from hanging out at a gay disco, learning them from drag queens; and I learned them in Liverpool, and I learned them in juvenile hall. So, I learned [my social skills] from future criminals, drag queens, and rock stars.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On developing social skills , The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
“I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being a woman in rock, The Independent (13 January 2008)
“When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On blogging and using Twitter, Spinnermusic.co.uk (January 2010)
“I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her marriage to Kurt Cobain, The Telegraph (3 April 2010)
“After what I've been through, I'd rather die than take drugs again.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On sobriety, The Howard Stern Show (26 April 2010)
“I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper. Within six months, I got my first million dollars and I didn’t have to strip for bucks any more. Then I met Kurt and we still chanted, but we did a lot of drugs together.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her Nichiren Buddhist chanting practice, The Guardian (29 December 2010)
“Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that had ever been through a broken home... my niche is a lot more specific: It's a lot of females, and a lot of gay guys, and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men—not many, but there's a few out there.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her fans, Hit So Hard (2011) documentary
“I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... [but] I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high—it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what attracted her to undergo plastic surgery, The Inner Circle (27 October 2011)
“When I was fourteen, I was so bloody ugly and I thought I was Kate Moss. I chased this guy named Mark Rennie, who was the hottest photographer in Portland, around, convinced him to [take pictures of me]. I had this big schnoz, I had blusher on, I'm wearing white gloves, and I [was] making new wave faces, and, like, voguing... there was a gap in my teeth, and I was 180 pounds. So if someone calls me ugly, it sort of rolls off my back because it's not about looks, it's about attitude—you get laid on attitude.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On confidence; The Opie & Anthony Show (30 May 2013)
“I don’t like coming to Seattle much. I talked to [[w:Chris Cornell|[Chris] Cornell]] about it not that long ago. And Jerry Cantrell. None of us like it. It is beautiful, objectively. The arboretum is great. But it freaks me out for obvious reasons. I didn’t really live there. I lived behind a gate. I would try to go up to [Pike Place] Market. My big expedition would be Urban Outfitters and the yoga store.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On living in Seattle in the 1990s, The Seattle Times (14 July 2013)
“America's Sweetheart was my one true piece of shit. It has no cohesive thread. I just hate it.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her 2004 solo record, The Daily Telegraph (April 5, 2014)
“It’s been twenty years—we didn’t even talk at [Kurt's] funeral. None of us. And so, twenty years of me getting Yoko-bashed, and Dave bashing, and me bashing and making it worse, all that shit. The legal stuff, the trial. We just buried it. It was really deep. It brings tears to my eyes to even talk about it.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On reconnecting with Dave Grohl, Pitchfork (1 May 2014)
“If I see a chick playing guitar, I’m drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it’s completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you’re male. I can’t help it. It’s part of my nature.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On women playing guitar, Pitchfork (1 May 2014)
“When my looks are shot—which I reckon will be in about six years—I’ll have plastic surgery here on my chin, and they can pull my cheeks back, but I’m not ready for that. And because of the smoking, the mouth is starting to give.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On plastic surgery, The Sydney Morning Herald (11 August 2014)
“I’ve protected it [the Nirvana catalogue] from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On managing the Nirvana catalogue, The Sydney Morning Herald (11 August 2014)
“I am a feminist and I’ve always thought of myself as a feminist. What I don’t like about feminism and the far left in general is the in-fighting, the way that the far left in-fights too much to get anything done and I feel like in feminism it’s like, ‘well, she’s not really feminist enough’ and there can be this kind of less-than thing in feminism. And also I think there’s a biological paradigm between men and women where men are just men and women are just women, and there is something to be said about that. But at the same time, I think equality amongst the sexes is critical.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On feminism, Dazed (22 March 2016)
“LA is easier. People have garages. And then as you go up the coast, in Washington and Oregon people have bigger houses and bigger garages, and people have parents.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being a working musician on the West Coast, in conversation with Lana Del Rey, Dazed (April 2017)
“When I was a teenage whore My mother asked me, she said, "Baby, what for?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without, without a doubt Come on and let me out Hey, where the fuck were you when my lights went out?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sister ectoplasma she's incredulous Just like a pro she takes off her dress And she kicks you down in her snow white pumps Just remember it was me who found the lumps”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't blush when I rip you open.”
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“Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack? Is she pretty on the inside? Is she pretty from the back? Slutkiss girls, won't you water her rack? Is she pretty on the inside? Is she pretty from the back? Slutkiss girl, molasses, rot blackstrap Is she rotten on the inside Is she ugly, ugly from the back?”
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