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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America. (Dave Grohl)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. View quote
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It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. (Dave Grohl)
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. View quote
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Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven. View quote
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. View quote
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And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia. View quote
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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. (Dave Grohl)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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