who said its better to burn out than fade away

Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk out on stage. The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I'm having 100% fun. The fact is, I can't fool you, any one of you. For example when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowd begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddie Mercury, who seem to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years, since my first introduction to the, shall we say, the ethics involved with independence and the embracement of your community has proven to be very true. This note should be pretty easy to understand. Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. The last words he spoke aren't known, but he did leave a suicide note, addressed to his imaginary childhood friend 'Boddah': He took the line 'it's better to burn out than to fade away' from his fellow Canadian rocker Neil Young's song Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black). That was such a relief,'Īfter one failed suicide attempt and a subsequent failed detox programme, Cobain shot himself, at home in Lake Washington, on 5 April 1994. 'It started with three days in a row of doing heroin and I don't have a stomach pain. In 1986, being already a heavy user of various drugs, he had begun to self-medicate his chronic health problems with heroin. The rise in the group's fortunes and his high-profile role in it did little to improve Cobain's state of mind and his health deteriorated.

After a period of little recognition or commercial success, Nirvana became, in the early 1990s, the most prominent of the alternative rock, or 'grunge' bands, The release of the band's influential 'Nevermind' album in 1991 and particularly the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' single taken from it saw Nirvana, and Cobain especially, become an important influence on the post-Punk 'Generation X'. In the 1980s he formed the band Nirvana, with a small group of friends. Kurt Donald Cobain suffered from bronchitis and intense stomach pain since childhood and he later experienced bouts of depression.

Who said its better to burn out than fade away