Dave Grohl Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'
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If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.
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Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
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It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
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I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.