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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Dave Grohl

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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America Cool Place Thinking
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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Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Sports Stars Yourself
How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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Best Humble Myself Stay
At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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Cute Myself School Stupidity Teacher Thinking
If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Music Myself Team
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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Drums Hope Myself Work
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Education Mom Myself Thankful
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
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Decision Music Myself Stop
There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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Life Price Value Wisdom Yourself
I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
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Experience Greatness Myself Possible Tragedy
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.
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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
No one is you, and that is your power.
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Instagram Captions Power Self Love Yourself
There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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Life Love Music Myself
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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Generation Important Oneself Time
To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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Album Amazing Happiness Important People Song
There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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Greatness Heart Broken Music Myself
If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
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Devil Funny Message Play Song Worst Yourself
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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Easy Family Friendship Old Popular
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Element Human Important Music Myself
As I get older… I start to realize that life ain’t half bad. Each year, I’m amazed that I’m still alive. I don’t take any of this for granted, I’m a lucky dude.
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Alive Grant Myself Old Realization Start
I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.
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Drive Life Thinking Yourself
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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Life Listening Machine Music Myself Sound
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
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Amazing Best Experience Myself Time Worst
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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Better Come Feeling Forever Fortunate Myself Way

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