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“No one is you, and that is your power.”
-- Dave Grohl
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #Writing #Names
“Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Real #Rocks #Rock And Roll
“We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Band #Fighter #Music Love
“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Saws #Rock N Roll #Importance
“Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Sports #Stars #Rocks
“If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Musician
“I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Real #Rocks #Looks
“All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Afterlife #Suitcases
“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.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #Journey #Order
“I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?”
-- Dave Grohl

#Play #Drug
“What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #Rocks #Loud
“Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do,”
-- Dave Grohl

#Play #People #Singing
“The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Albums #Matter #Capable
“If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #Play #Devil
“In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Thinking #Rocks #Albums
“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.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Going Away #Arena #Capacity
“We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Home #Play #Shows
“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.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Rocks #Idols #Play
“I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Stars #Confused #Rocks
“Thatâ€™s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and theyâ€™ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #People #Different
“Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles”
-- Dave Grohl

#Rocks #Records #Sweden
“It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Children #People
“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.”
-- Dave Grohl

#People #Band #Records
“The human element of making music is what's most important.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Important #Elements #Music Is
“Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].”
-- Dave Grohl

#Heart #Play #People
“Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #Emotional #Impact
“Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Wall #Cancer #Artist
“I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.”
-- Dave Grohl

#Space #Years #Albums
“What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?”
-- Dave Grohl

#Song #Guy #Trying

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