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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect. "

" The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically. "

" No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. "

" '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! "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice? "

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be. "

" 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? "