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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Teacher

Family

Happiness

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

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

" '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! "

" When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. "

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

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

Dave Grohl

Hand

Songwriting

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. "

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

" Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Organization

Never

" 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 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. "