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.
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.
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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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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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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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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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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Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’
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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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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.
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What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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