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Dave Grohl [1969-0] American

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David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, director and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and the founder and frontman of the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the lead singer, one of three guitarists, and primary songwriter.

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There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.	Love, Wedding	101
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.		102
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.		103
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.		104
When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.		105
A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.		106
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.	Computers, Music	107
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.	Music	108
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.		109
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.		110
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.		111
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?		112
I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.		113
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!	Learning	114
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.		115
Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.	Family, Music	116
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.		117
I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.		118
There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.	Respect	119
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.		120
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.		121
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.		122
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.	Music	123
I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.		124
It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.		125
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.	Sports	126
I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.	Future	201
You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.		202
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.	Age	203
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.		204
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.		205
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.		206
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.	Home	207
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.		208
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'	Famous	209
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.		210
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.		211
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.	Technology	212
There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.		213
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?		214
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.		215
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.		216
I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.		217
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.		218
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.		219
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.		220
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.		221
Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.		222
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.		223
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.		224
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.		225
I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.		226
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.		301
The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.		302
'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.'		303
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.		304
No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.	Computers, Faith	305
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.		306
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.		307
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.	Beauty	308
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.	Teacher	309
'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!		310
I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.		311
I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.		312
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.		313
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.		314
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.		315
I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.		316
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.		317
Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.		318
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.		319
The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.		320
Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.		321
If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.		322
Cause 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.		323
It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.		324
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.		325
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.		326
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?		401
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.		402
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.		403
It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.		404
I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.		405
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.		406
I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.		407
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.	Dreams	408
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.		409
Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?		410
I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.		411
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.	Poetry	412
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.		413
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.		414
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.		415
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.		416
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.		417
Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.		418
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.		419
I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.		420
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.		421

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