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.
DAVE GROHLIf you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
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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There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
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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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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 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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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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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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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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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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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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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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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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I 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.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
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Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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