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" 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. "

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" If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia. "

Dave Grohl

Lost

Just

Hurricane

" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Never Stop

Music

" I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? "

" 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. "

" 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

Music

Listen

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids. "

" 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. "

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

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

" All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. "

" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Music

Listen

" I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Away

Well

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Myself

Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" 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. "