Dave Grohl Quotes - Page 7

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• I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

  Dave Grohl

  Crazy, Men, Caves

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• A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

  Dave Grohl

  Perfection, People, Safe

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on His 'Sound City' Doc and Taking Risks in Music". Interview with Katie Van Syckle, www.rollingstone.com. January 25, 2013.

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• From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

  Dave Grohl

  Years, September, Over It

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• I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Musician, Legends

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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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.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Journey, Order

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

  Dave Grohl

  Artist, Careers, People

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

  Dave Grohl

  Crazy, Ambition, Passion

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• Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

  Dave Grohl

  Powerful, People, Joining

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• I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up
  listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

  Dave Grohl

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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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.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Fake, Sound

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• I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

  Dave Grohl

  Crazy, Virginia, Space

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• It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

  Dave Grohl

  Fun, Wander, Walks

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

  Dave Grohl

  Want, Made, Conversation

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• Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

  Dave Grohl

  Hero, Past, Years

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

  Dave Grohl

  Teenager, Zeppelins, Obsession

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• I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Rocks, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

  Dave Grohl

  Stars, Confused, Rocks

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• I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

  Dave Grohl

  Travel, Kings, Heaven

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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.

  Dave Grohl

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  Dave Grohl

  Different, Tape, Way

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• I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Rocks, Band

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• My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

  Dave Grohl

  Hands, Songwriting, Listeners

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• Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Tools, Use

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• A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Responsibility, Mean

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