![]() ![]() Life is “just choice, right now, between fear and love”. I seek to provoke inward thought, and also would love to hear your thoughts to teach and inspire me.įor now, as we go on in our game of life, I leave you this. Apparently, Neil Young had been trying to. I don't appreciate the worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or dead John. If he was talking about burning out like Sid Vicious, forget it. It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. Some burned brightly but briefly, all sacrificed. In Kurt Cobain s suicide note he quoted Neil Youngs song 'My My, Hey Hey' lyrics 'Its Better to burn out, than to fade away.' Cobains use of the lyrics had a profound impact on Young, who recorded portions of the 1994 Sleeps With Angels (listen to a sample clip here) album in Cobains memory. Sheff: You disagree with Neil Young's lyric in Rust Never Sleeps: 'It's better to burn out than to fade away.' Lennon: I hate it. A few geniuses who built roads other will drive upon who gave much for their art : Risking it all does not mean dying young and in pain, but it does mean sacrifice for your art. A line Rust never sleeps in these lyrics was used as. There are so many parallels between great artists and great leaders, one of which sits at the core of #OpenLeadership, and that is bravery.īravery to “risk absolutely everything for the smallest chance that something absolutely amazing could happen” (per the quote in the “ok is not ok” post).ĭo you want to be someone about whom is said: “others will drive on the road he built”? Are you brave enough to “think different”? Will you risk it all? (cue many entrepreneurs reading this nodding vigorously “yes, been there done that, got the t-shirt!”) Kurt Cobains suicide note contained a line from this song: Its better to burn out than to fade away. The other will drive on the road he built” His musical legacy that he left behind accompanied. ![]() When Kurt Cobain said ‘it’s better to burn out than fade away’ he truly meant it. On this day we shall remember his music, his ability to capture the hopelessness of youth and his raw growling vocals. Absolutely not politically correct (so be warned if you google him), he was a genius of a comedian and thinker, who died at 32 and, over 20 years later, the memory of his work is etched into the memories of so many.Īs Tom Waits described him: “Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truth sayer, and brain specialist. So by the power invested in me I hereby declare this day to be National Kurt Cobain Day. Today I was reminded of the late, great Bill Hicks. In a recent post Ok is not ok, I noted that Neil Young said: “It’s better to burn out, than to fade away” and Kurt Cobain included that in his suicide note.
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