The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
DAVE GROHLWhen 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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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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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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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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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