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I never really followed grunge. -- Robert Quine
The world is a pile of grunge. -- Jo Stafford
Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. -- Marc Jacobs
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. -- Joey Santiago
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge. -- Adam Jones
I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. -- Bruce Dickinson
When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound. -- Eddie Vedder
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.' -- Douglas Rushkoff
Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know. -- Neil Young
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life. -- Mario Testino
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised. -- Martin Popoff
Im the mold that grunge was grown in. -- Townes Van Zandt
I'm the mold that grunge was grown in. -- Townes Van Zandt
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge. -- Adam Jones
I don't know much about that whole grunge thing. -- Todd Snider
People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it. -- Billy Corgan
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. -- Daphne Guinness
Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy. -- Joel McHale
I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. -- John Oates
When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes. -- Ringo Starr
Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL. -- Charlie Benante
Every day my style changes with my mood. Some days I'll feel a little more grunge and wear boyfriend jeans, but in the summer I like to feel girly and wear dresses. -- Julianne Hough
I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me. -- Jack White
I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste. -- Al Yankovic
What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc. -- Kurt Cobain
My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack. -- Adam Pally
It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge? -- Billy Idol
We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off. -- Billy Corgan
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully. -- Phil Anselmo
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. -- Hal Sparks
Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless. -- Greg Graffin
I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves -- James Marsters
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. -- James Marsters
Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band. -- Brandon Flowers
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. -- Sufjan Stevens
Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves. -- Florence Welch
People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back. -- Brandon Flowers
If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. -- Lydia Lunch
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world. -- Caitlin Moran
When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different. -- Carrie Underwood
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. I can't relate to it either, as for grunge music, well that was the death kneel for a lot of the glam metal hair bands of the 80's, so I really do not care for grunge. I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music. -- Vinnie Vincent
Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool. -- David Pajo
I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life. -- Polly Allen Mellen
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. -- David Cook
Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio. -- Brian Chippendale
If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge. -- Damon Albarn
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. -- Brian Setzer
I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies. -- Taylor Momsen
Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it. -- Colin Stetson
I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms. -- Billy Corgan
There's not a word that describes us. We're not alternative, metal or grunge - we're not any of that. We're just what we are. -- Jerry Cantrell
My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren't glitter, well, that only left one other option. -- Rachel Vincent
I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. -- Jessica Pare
I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. -- Jessica Pare
I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge. -- Pedro Winter
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins. -- Chuck Eddy
In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility. -- Adam Richman

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