Dave Grohl Quotes

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

Dave Grohl Nirvana

• Band
• Virginia
• Craziness

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Mother`s
  • Lot

• I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Period

• I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Luck
  • Russia
  • Washing

• I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Business
  • Same

• I shake hands on the first date.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Hands
  • First
  • Date

• I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Man
  • Political

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Beauty
  • Escape
  • Charmed

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Job
  • Day
  • Universe

• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Design
  • Dress
  • Uniform

• I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Literature
  • Italian
  • Heroes

• There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Simple

• No matter how far those dreams have taken me, I have always remembered, I’m the daughter of a small-business owner and the granddaughter of a factory worker - and proud of both.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Business
  • Small
  • Proud

• You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May

• My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Family
  • She
  • Mom

• My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It's gym, ice, homework. They're too tired to get in trouble.

  

  Nelson Peltz
  • Kids
  • Tired
  • Gym

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Band
  • Image
  • Guns N Roses

• And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Band
  • Virginia
  • Craziness