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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.

Dave Grohl

Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
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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Easy Family Friendship Old Popular
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Element Human Important Music Myself
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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Heroes Inspirational Intimidation Myself
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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Charge Furniture Myself Organization Work
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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Fire Listen Music Myself
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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Children Music Team
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Digital Easy Forget People Record
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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Inspirational Motivational Myself Possible Poster Thinking
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
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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Cute Myself School Stupidity Teacher Thinking
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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Hands History Music Personal Play Yourself
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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Album Amazing Happiness Important People Song
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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Drummer Instrument Music Myself Song
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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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
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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Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team

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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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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