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• “We’re off-the-charts excited and thrilled, no matter what happens. This is what every teacher dreams of for their students.” – Susan Cooper (Drama teacher Blue Springs South High School)

• “He’s got a natural vibrato. He’s got a huge range, from bottom to top. He can sing like a girl and then sing like Pearl Jam and rattle the windows. The guy can do that real rough rock and do a ballad that can just make you cry.” – Tom Bassile – Tulsa OK (He produced a 2003 Axuim album)

• “He’s been a great example. By fifth grade, they’re starting to think, ‘Yeah, I’m macho. I don’t do that singing thing.’ Well, there is nothing sissy about David and his singing. He has one of the most wonderful voices, with such wonderful, rich undertones. The boys cannot deny that this is how you do it.” – Fredalyn Gentry (Grade School music teacher)

• “Dave was probably one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met in a local music scene. Even if he wasn’t playing, he’d come out to shows and stand at the side of stage and watch you play. Not a lot of people would do that. They tell you they loved your set, but really they’d be drinking beer at the bar the whole time you were playing. He’d watch your whole set, tell you it was awesome, and then help you load your stuff up. You’d be like, ‘Dude, you’re not even playing a show. Go have a beer!’ He’s a killer songwriter, and once people hear that, it’s gonna be all over. I mean, he can rearrange songs and make ‘em sound like stuff you’d hear being played on rock radio, but when people hear his own songs, they’re minds are gonna be blown.” – Nathan Russell

• One thing that set Cook apart from many of his Idol competitors was his inner poise—the near Zen-like calmness that gave him an air of bulletproof resolve.