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If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.


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DAVE GROHL Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wal...
DAVE GROHL My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They'v...
DAVE RAMSEY You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
DAVE BARRY Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...
DAVE BARRY I care about what the fans feel.
DAVE MUSTAINE One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
DAVE MUSTAINE I am interested in politics.
DAVE MUSTAINE I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
DAVE MUSTAINE Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.
DAVE MUSTAINE My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ...
DAVE MUSTAINE I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.
DAVE MUSTAINE Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu...
DAVE MUSTAINE Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to th...
DAVE MUSTAINE Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
DAVE MUSTAINE No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.
DAVE MUSTAINE The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
DAVE MUSTAINE