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" I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? "
Dave Grohl
Love
Music
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know? "
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" When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. "
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You
Old Friends
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" Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children. "
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Had
" It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band. "
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Favorite
Band
" Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful. "
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" When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. "
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" 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. "
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" Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice? "
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Good
Voice
Say
" 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. "
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Ambition
Passion
Music
" 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. "
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Music
Everything
Conversation
" 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. "
Dave Grohl
Great Things
Done
Great
" I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect. "
Dave Grohl
Albums
Sound
Perfect
" 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
Me
Myself
Love
" 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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Know
Up
Play
" I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in. "
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Made
Royal
Purple
" I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. "
Dave Grohl
Doing
Even
Started
" It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. "
Dave Grohl
Funny
Child
Like
" 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? "
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Done
Good Old Days
Time
" 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. "
Dave Grohl
Sleep
Feel
Night
" 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. "
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Think
Faith
" When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. "
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Young
You
Next
" All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. "
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Drums
Seattle
Work
" 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. "
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Better
Fake
Guitar
" 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. "
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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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" Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. "
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Thief
Guilt
You