Dave Grohl Quotes
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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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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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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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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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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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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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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 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.