Dave Grohl Quotes
When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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I think 2020 can still be my time.
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A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
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I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
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I remember loving that album, ... Frampton took me into the studio and played me that album and I thought it was the greatest party album that I'd heard in a long time, and so I wrote the liner notes and the album became huge.
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I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.
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Hearing the Evanescence album you can obviously tell that David and Ben have a real passion for that big kind of background and I have a big voice and I like the music to match it, so it was a real dream team, ... They're both so different from each other and so different from me, but I think the three of us getting together just created such great songs.
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Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.
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I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
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Yeah exactly, so if anyone's bummed that The Mars Volta record's too simple or too pop, they can buy that album and it'll take them right back to that kind of sound. It's one of my favourite things I've ever worked on. It's pretty much a Mars Volta record, just without Thomas, Ikey, and Marcel. With Volta [Octahedron] was just our acoustic record that turned into our pop record.
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.
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We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
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i think our desires to put in music that we like and want to do in our albums are stronger than being conscious of the public's eyes or ears. That's why we're learning bit by bit with each new album. Although our music charts rankings are quite low, rankings and money aren't important in music.
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I have a studio at home where I record all of my solo material from the beginning 'til the very end, thus also the ideas which later on will find their way onto yet another Mike & The Mechanics album.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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I am alone. No one stands beside me. I have no Dark Prince to ride in my chariot, to walk with me, to hold me to him. I have no one. And yet. I myself, at last, I have myself. And to me, at this time, it seems enough. It seems more, much more, than enough.
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No job is ever “beneath” you. In whatever you do, do it to the best of your abilities
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When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.