Dave Pirner
Dave Pirner
David Anthony "Dave" Pirneris an American songwriter, singer, and producer best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the alternative rock band Soul Asylum...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth16 April 1964
CityGreen Bay, WI
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.