When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
Quotes about nirvana (14 Quotes)
for the last nine months we have had the pleasure to take Chad-Drums under our wings and develop what we are now and always will be NIRVANA
The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass,
The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls,
But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous
In the blest Nirvana of eternal light!
It made for such a powerful impression. Everybody was talking about how this Nirvana tune was on there. But the truth of that matter is that Herbie Hancock put out an album 10 years ago with Nirvana on it.
The music gets better and better. It ages so well. Some bands that you sit and listen to, and it just sounds completely silly a few years later, but that Nirvana stuff, when you hear it on the radio nowadays, it sounds as vital and vibrant as it did 10, 12 years ago, when it first came out. And one can only obviously wonder what other cool stuff would've come out of that whole thing.
I don't really like mainstream music at all, ... When I listen to the radio or watch MTV, 99 of it is like listening to an air-conditioner or a hair-dryer. Sometimes, though, something comes along that jolts you. When I was growing up, it was bands like Nirvana and Jane's Addiction. Those bands elevate culture. I don't think there's any point in aiming for anything less.
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
In a broad sense there are a lot of people working on the elusive nirvana of cross-platform development. This is a very specific area where we firmly believe and espouse as part of our strategy to use a language and an architecture that automatically gives you cross platform.
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest (pun on the word 'nirvana'), bhikkhus.
By always keeping the mind fixed on the Self, the yogi whose mind is subdued attains peace of the Supreme nirvana by uniting with Me.
There will always be people who move here, find nirvana and then want no more. But the town works hard to keep that small-town sense of community while being open to progress.
Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that I will lead all of them into nirvana'.
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Building a dessert on an unlikely flavor can also be risky business. If it's warm and chocolate it's nirvana for most people, ... But I can't give away prune desserts.