Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
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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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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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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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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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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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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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I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.
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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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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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There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.
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I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.
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As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.