I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

— Kurt Cobain on Identity

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously." in the context of "Kurt Cobain, in Popular music, gender, and postmodernism, p. 94." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Kurt Cobain

About Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (20 February 1967 – ca. 5 April 1994) was the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana.