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Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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.
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.
Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.
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.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
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.
Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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.
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.
When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.
I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.
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.
Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'
I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.
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.
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.
My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
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 don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.
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.
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.
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.