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The human element of making music is what’s most important.

Dave Grohl

At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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Cute Myself School Stupidity Teacher Thinking
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.
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Computer Instrument Music Myself People Rock Station
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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Feeling Fight Force Pull
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.
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Age Day Machine Magic People Replacement Room Yourself
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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Heroes Inspirational Intimidation Myself
It’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.
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Brilliant Intelligence Moon Music
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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Goodness Myself Wake Up
There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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Difference Fall In Love Marriage Person Yourself
To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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Album Amazing Happiness Important People Song
I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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Appearance Body Drugs Myself Skin Time Work
If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Music Myself Team
When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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Afraid Children Excitement Young Yourself
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?
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Count Focus Goodness Old Time Trophy Yourself
There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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Life Love Music Myself
There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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Life Price Value Wisdom Yourself
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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Generation Important Oneself Time
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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Cool Family Happiness Health Important
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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Fire Listen Music Myself
That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Digital Easy Forget People Record
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Encouragement Myself People Thinking
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Education Mom Myself Thankful
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
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Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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Alcohol Clothes Fashion Gift Myself
Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.
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Coffee Music Myself Paper People Play

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