all. While in high school he started getting into music and finally seeing shows and doing what he always wanted to do. He states "I wanted to move to Seattle, sell my ass, and be a punk rocker, but I was too afraid."(www.downer.com quotes) Then finally in 1985 Kurt dropped out of high school. Kurt knew what he wanted to do. He wanted to write music and school was just getting in the way. He also hated the "high school culture" of the clicks and sport favoritism. In the next few years Kurt would meet Kirst Novoselic and together they would float through many bands until they finally stopped at Nirvana. Kurt wrote in the original biography of the band that "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 name for the band comes from the definition of the word, which is: 1.The final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness. 2.A place or state of oblivion to care, pain or external reality. The Doors seemed to be searching for nirvana too. In a New York Times article "The Doors seek Nirvana" by Alfred G. Aronowitz it was said that Jim's campaign motto was "Nirvana now." Jim's education on the other hand was complete, he graduated from UCLA. His aspirations were always to be a writer, poet, or a film maker. He never really thought he would become such a famous singer. Jim also read a lot. His heroes were artist and writers. He even, uh, borrowed a few lines from William Blake: "some are born to sweet delight/ some are born to the endless night." William Blake also said " when the doors of perception are cleansed man will see things as they truly are, infinite." The Doors found this statement quoted in Aldous Hugely The Doors of Perception which is where the groups name comes from. Also the style of the French symbolist poet Arthur Ri...
