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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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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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
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Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.
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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
