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Dave Grohl Quote: 'I dropped out of high school ...'

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I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.
Brian Dietzen
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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Travis Barker
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Alessandro Nivola
Tags: Just Been Never
High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.
Steve Aoki
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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.


Philip Emeagwali
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I play really bad punk rock guitar.


Rhys Ifans
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I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.


Skylar Grey
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When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
Danica McKellar
Tags: Had Them Go
I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.
William Mapother
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Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.


Dexter Holland
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
Amy Adams
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I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Bo Jackson
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.


Nick Lowe
Tags: You Thing Were
Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
Brandon Thomas
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It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
James Marsters
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. King
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Daniel Goldstein
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow
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In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
David Spade
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I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.


Grant Achatz
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