Dave Grohl Quotes
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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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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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
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In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity .
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It's amazing how much of that music I still listen to actually. I was such a fan of music, even after I got started professionally I remained a fan. But what happens when you're so involved is you start spending all your time based on the music that you're involved with, you just don't have as much time.
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
