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" If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. "

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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. "

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

" When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in. "

" 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. "

" '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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "