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Courtney Love
86 quotes
“And the sky was all violet I want it again, but violent, more violent I'm the one with no soul One above and one below”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye I am the girl you know so sick I cannot try I am the one you want, can't look you in the eye I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He shakes his dead rattle Spittle on his bib And I don't do the dishes I throw them in the crib”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every time that I sell myself to you I feel a little bit cheaper than I need to I will tear the petals off of you Rose red, I will make you tell the truth”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to be the girl with the most cake He only loves those things because he loves to see them break I fake it so real, I am beyond fake And someday you will ache like I ache Someday you will ache like I ache”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've got a blister from touching everything I see The abyss opens up It steals everything from me”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want my baby Where is my baby? I want my baby Where is my baby?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, make me over I'm all I wanna be A walking study In demonology”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crash and burn All the stars explode tonight How'd you get so desperate? How'd you stay alive?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love hangs herself with the bedsheets in her cell Threw myself on fires for you Ten good reasons to stay alive Ten good reasons that I can't find”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I wait staring at the Northern Star I'm afraid it won't lead you very far He's so cold, he will win the world tonight All the angels kneel into the frozen lights Feel their hearts they're cold and white”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In your endless summer night I'll be on the other side When you're beautiful and dying All the world that you've denied When the water is too deep You can close your eyes and really sleep tonight Tonight”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hush your highness, don't you breathe No, baby, hold me in your arms, I'm shivering But what's all this for? If I was the battle, baby, you have won the war”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The devil's driving my car tonight, and he's drunk He's pissed, he's mad I don't care which of you he fucks up”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should've loved me baby When redemption's too blind Nature took my soul And sin left a scar so wide Time ravaged my body And now I live in the house Where the red light's always on”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Asphyxiate all your pain away Don't try to win; it will only end in disgrace Translucetize the cold light of day It's glorious, its terrible, God I need it It's beautiful, it's ravenous; I'll just feed it Coil down to your black dark decay And I will dig my own grave now I'm miss begotten I am the last one you save here It's all gone rotten”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And they're coming to take me away now What I want I will never have I'm on the Pacific Coast Highway With your gun in my hands”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People like you fuck people like me In order to avoid agony People like you fuck people like me In order to avoid suffering People like you fuck people like me Fuck people like you Fuck people like me Fuck people like you Fuck people like me Fuck people like you”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So you think that you could save him, And we know that someone died. Oh, an unkindness of ravens, And we know that Mary lied”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I don't care what it takes my friend I will never go hungry, go hungry again Oh, and I don't care what I have to pretend I will never go hungry, go hungry again And the phoenix she rises, she is sure to descend She will never go hungry, go hungry again And you're looking to me more and more like a godsend We will never go hungry, go hungry again And we owe each other nothing, there's no one left here to offend We will never go hungry, go hungry again”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's my lie and I believe in it It's my lie and I wanted it It's my bed and I'll bleed in it It's my bed, and I'll lie And I sit on the corner And I drink drown soda I wanna bomb the whole state of Minnesota”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You want retreat, filthy and deep A dead moon, a drunken sleep Baby, there is a room full of death and whores and truth And I am waiting in that room And I am waiting in there for you It's all hoarse, it's all pain It's all disease, man, it's all the same My little Judas, my little twin Where you start, that's where I begin”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You look good in my dress I'll get your friends to clean the mess You look good in my clothes I can feel you where the doctor goes”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She spent twenty years like a virus They want to burn the witches inside us Well, yeah, you don't fuck with the Fabulous Four Or you'll spend the rest of your life picking things up off the floor Oh baby, dry your dirty eyes My water breaks like turpentine”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hi. We're Hole. As in "asshole.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do guys get to take off their shirts and we don't?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Phoenix Theatre, Toronto, Ontario; September 1, 1994
“Why did you pay twenty dollars to sit in the front row and tell me I suck? And you're a girl. That's stupid.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Paradiso, Amsterdam; April 24, 1995
“Hi. Kiss my ass. We're Pearl Jam.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brixton Academy, London; May 4, 1995
“On three, I want you to say "bitch" really loud. One, two, three, "bitch!”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lollapalooza, George, Washington; July 4, 1995
“Is this the anti-gay state? Aren't you the people that voted on the anti-gay thing?”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lollapalooza, Denver, Colorado; July 8, 1995
“Imagine this: You're peaking. You're in you youth. At the prime of your life. The last thing you want to be is a symbol of heroin use. You've finally met somebody of the opposite gender who you can write with. That's never happened before in your life. The only other person you could ever write with wasn't as good a writer as you, and this person's a better writer than you. And you're in love, you have a best friend, you have a soul-fucking-mate, and you can't even believe it's happening in your lifetime. And as a bonus he's beautiful. And he's rich. And he's a hot rock star to boot. And he's the best fuck that ever walked. And he wants to have babies, and what you want is babies. You've wanted to have babies forever. And he understands everything you say. And he completes your sentences. And he's lazy, but is spiritual, and he's not embarrassed about praying, he's not embarrassed about God, Jesus, none of it. He fucking thinks it's all really cool. He wants to fucking learn the path. He wants to be enlightened. Everything. And there's even some room for you to fix him, which you like, 'cause you're a fixer-upper. He's perfect in almost every fucking way. The only fucking happiness that I ever had. And then it all gets taken away.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her marriage to Kurt Cobain and his death, "Endless Love", Spin (February 1995)
“Without the benefit of history, there was no way you could be in the middle of all that and understand what it was like. To be a couple that persecuted, and to be such weak people, so frail and reactive, huddling together because the whole world is going [she makes a sound like a bomb going off]. You’ve got your own team, the sectarian left, splintering off and pointing accusing fingers. We’re fucking picking nits off Eddie Vedder and Eddie Vedder is trying to take on the constitution, and the whole fucking world is damning me to the stake. It was insanity. So in reaction to that, I made a record about it.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her relationship with Kurt Cobain, interview with The Georgia Straight (1999)
“Even though I now feel more confident and happy, I was really paranoid for about a year and a half. Basically, what happened was that I quit taking drugs and I walked out into the world and was sort of in this film that was really well received. So, after years of living a more destructive lifestyle, I had to, instantly, kind of court this world which had incredibly nice value systems, but with protocols that I had never encountered before. And then I had to reconcile these two worlds. You know—I want to live a happier, more productive lifestyle, but the question was, did I want to renounce being in a great rock ’n’ roll band for that? The answer was ‘No way.’”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On reconciling her career in acting and music, interview with The Georgia Straight (1999)
“Since I’ve basically been giving my music away for free under the old system, I’m not afraid of wireless, MP3 files or any of the other threats to my copyrights. Anything that makes my music more available to more people is great. MP3 files sound cruddy, but a well-made album sounds great. And I don’t care what anyone says about digital recordings. At this point they are good for dance music, but try listening to a warm guitar tone on them. They suck for what I do. … I’m looking for people to help connect me to more fans, because I believe fans will leave a tip based on the enjoyment and service I provide. I’m not scared of them getting a preview. It really is going to be a global village where a billion people have access to one artist and a billion people can leave a tip if they want to. It’s a radical democratization. Every artist has access to every fan and every fan has access to every artist, and the people who direct fans to those artists. People that give advice and technical value are the people we need. People crowding the distribution pipe and trying to ignore fans and artists have no value. This is a perfect system.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "Courtney Love does the math", a speech given on the corruption of the music industry, from Salon.com (14 June 2000)
“I always said I’d never go to New York until someone pays me—because I’ve seen people come back from New York like desiccated, broken… New York is a tough place if you’re coming out of Port Authority or from Oregon, and they were paying me 356 dollars a day to be on the set [of Sid and Nancy] so that was really wonderful. Then I did Straight To Hell which went straight to video (but) then Andy Warhol noticed me from those two films. Then I got to be in Interview magazine and I got this little measure of celebrity, but with no money (laughs) that sucks… (but) it feels great if you’ve been wanting it. A lot of people like to say, ‘oh I didn’t ask for this, it just happened. I’m the luckiest guy in the world…’ I always wanted it.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her first exposure to fame after appearing in Alex Cox's films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987), Dazed (22 March 2016)
“I always took myself really seriously... but sometimes I’d be at a venue and the guy would call me ‘sweetie’ or ‘honey’ when we were doing drums and stuff. I’d carry the drums in myself so people wouldn’t say I was a bitch. I went very briefly to an engineering school, so I knew the difference between white noise and pink noise and what a view meter was, and a logs player and things like that. I didn’t need to know but it came in handy when I was sitting with Steve Albini like ‘really? Is that a good logs player?’ I barely know what it is, but I learned "Smoke On The Water" so I could go to Guitar Center and play that and not have guys look at me. It was a different time—I think girls get taken a lot more seriously now.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being a woman in rock in the early 1990s, Dazed (22 March 2016)