Dave Grohl Quotes

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Country
  • Society
  • Political

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Steps
  • Dogs

• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Love
  • Want
  • Reading

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Job
  • Rich

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Law
  • Husband
  • Wall

• If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Cool
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Experience
  • Process
  • System

• My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Bored
  • Nervous
  • Interests

• Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Age
  • End

• My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Morning
  • Marriage

• Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Associations
  • Misanthrope
  • Christmas time

• Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Black

• Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?

  

  Bart Millard MercyMe
  • Song
  • Change
  • Record

• With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
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