DAVE'S QUOTES

"All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I
took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work
It did"

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"The name of our band is pronounced Nir-vah-nah
not Nir-va-na"

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(on Krist)
"The biggest guy I had ever seen and the
scrawniest guy I had ever seen"

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"Y'know, maybe one percent of the people
who are listening to Nevermind, that ever
bought Nevermind, maybe not one percent,
but I'm just saying that this, um, a small
minority of people that are listening to our
record now, know about punk rock. A lot of
people don't know about punk rock..They think
about punk rock and they think of that Quincy
episode where the guy threw the brick off the
building, and..."

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"I ate about 600 of them a day and I had
a feeling of extreme beauty. Those mentos
really work!"

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"I'ts not some technical, masturbatory,
see-what-I-can-do record"

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"Our music has a lot of energy to it, and
in a smaller place, energy translates better

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"I was driving and "Teen Spirit" came on the
radio and I thought, God, that really sounds
like shit!"

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"I didn't think Nevermind would be that much
different to Bleach, just a progression"

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"Dick is short for Richard, and Rich is short
for Richard too, so Rich people are dicks"

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(on the teen spirit video)
"So many people think it's the epitome of this
rebellious high school vibe"

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(After seeing Krist and Kurt for the first time) "There was this guy who was about six foot seven,
really huge. He's telling a story and he's really
loud and obnoxious and jumping around. Then there's
this other tiny weasel of a guy, sitting in a corner
and not talking to anybody, and looking like he's
taking a shit"

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"Kurt would have been shocked by the lasting impact
he's made"

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"I don't think any of us would be here if it
was not for kurt Cobain"

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