Dave Grohl Quotes
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When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
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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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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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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'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
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It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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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.
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Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.
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Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles.
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
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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 know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.
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I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.
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I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.