You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
DAVE GROHLIt’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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.
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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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