Dave Grohl Quotes
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
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'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
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If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
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Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
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When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
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It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
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I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.
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There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
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A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.
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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.
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We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
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It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f___ing Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f___ing show… f___ that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.
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I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.