Krist Novoselic quotes

Krist Novoselic is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist for the iconic rock band Nirvana. His influential playing helped shape the sound of 1990s grunge music. He remains active in music and is also known for his political and social activism. Here are 47 of his quotes:

No band is special, no player royalty.

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Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

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And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

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Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

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We weren't really interested in those bands; we were-because we came out of this subterranean scene. And then Nirvana breaks big, and it's just diametrically opposite: we have, like, facial hair, and just, kind of, logger shirts, but we're all, like, "sensitive" and "feminine"-you know what I mean?

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I voted last week, and everything I voted for was defeated. I voted for less police station money and against adding more courtrooms. The guy I voted for, a congressman, lost big time because he's totally anti-military. He wanted to cut the CIA budget! He's really cool. But he lost.

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I own guns. I think they're a good tool to have out in the country, and I should be able to protect my home and my family.

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I do feel like, kinda like a misfit; usually I feel, inside, I'm a misfit. Like, I don't really watch sports, or a lot of...

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Did you know that the biggest-you know, the biggest star in the univer-in the whole galaxy/universe is as big as an atom is small? Did you know that? Isn't that wild? That's more pothead philosophy.

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Globalisation is a great thing, and the genie's out of the bottle; it's called the Information Revolution. It has a promise to bring opportunity and information to all corners of the world. It's a wonderful thing.

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If you hear a song you like, start dancing. That's what I do, I'll just start dancing, and that's it. That's all there is to it.

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Nick Gillespie: So, um, how do you self-describe politically? Krist Novoselic: I'm a, what, an anarcho-capitalist socialist...I don't know...I'm kinda a moderate, I think I'm moderate. Nick Gillespie: So you're an anarcho-capitalist socialist moderate. Krist Novoselic: I mean I'm a gun-owning pacifist, so there you go. I'm an anarcho-socialist-you know what I mean? Nick Gillespie: Anarcho-socialist- Krist Novoselic: -capitalist- Nick Gillespie: -capitalist, gun-toting... Krist Novoselic: Yeah, it's just like I, y'know, I just tryin'a, tryin'a make it work in this world and...basically I'm just a small-D democrat.

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I don't really like his [Ted Nugent's] reactionary politics. He's a lot like the people on the left, you know what I mean?

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If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

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We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

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But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

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But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

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I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

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Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

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Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.

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I like my guns. Yeah, because it just makes me more comfortable.

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