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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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" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Ambition

Passion

Music

" There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special. "

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

" I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician. "

" 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 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

" I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician. "

" If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dave Grohl

Know

Play

" 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

" When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the 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. "

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

" I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record. "

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

" 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 dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. "

Dave Grohl

Rock

Myself

" 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. "

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

Dave Grohl

Music

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

Dave Grohl

Hand

Songwriting

" 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. "