Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHLWow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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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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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There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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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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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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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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We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
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I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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