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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I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.
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Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
