That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
DAVE GROHLI had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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It’s not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I’m Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.
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When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
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