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Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: Behind Bit Competition Contest Giving Kid Left Like Little Little Bit Music Out Seems Trophies World

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I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about outer space more as an adult than I probably ever did as a kid. That was also inspiring, the concept of being stuck to the earth.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: About Adult Also Being Concept Did Earth Ever Fun Gravity Inspiring Just Kid Know Life More Much Outer Outer Space Space Started Stuck Than Thinking Too Too Much Without Wonder Would

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I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: About Adult Ask Books Comic Comic Books Graphic Graphic Novels Kids Like Me Novels People Really Say Separate Severe Two You

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Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: After Between Concept Dance Families First Get Here Instruments Kids Learn Lot Musical New New Orleans Orleans Out Part Piano Pick Romantic Tap Teach Then You

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As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: Band Being Best Funny Got How How Much Love Making Much Out Realize Record Solo Sounds Thing I Love

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Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: Always Business Creative Creativity Going How Know Making Once People Problem Run Sell Selling Start Talk Trying You

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It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: Assess Little Look Me Mirror More More People Often Own People Relationships Surprises Take

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I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Guitar Just Kid Never Played Who

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I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: About Anger Anymore Being Constructive Humor Same Sense Sense Of Humor Some Sort Still

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I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.

~Dave Pirner

Topics: Along Audience Before Flashing Knows Life Maybe Me More My Life Next People Recent See Singing Someone Something Standing Stuff Who Wrote I See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 16th, 1964

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