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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

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
DAVE GROHL

Heroes Inspirational Intimidation Myself
What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’
DAVE GROHL

Drummer Instrument Music Myself Song
I think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.
DAVE GROHL

Future Myself Obstacle Past Relationship Scare Try Work
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
DAVE GROHL

Cool Family Happiness Health Important
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHL

Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
DAVE GROHL

Best Microphone Myself Time
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 GROHL

Drummer Fake Guitar Music Myself Play Teaching
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

Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
DAVE GROHL

Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
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.
DAVE GROHL

Charge Furniture Myself Organization Work
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
DAVE GROHL

Death Equality Music Myself Quit
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.
DAVE GROHL

Coffee Music Myself Paper People Play
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
DAVE GROHL

Better Come Feeling Forever Fortunate Myself Way
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.
DAVE GROHL

Life Listening Machine Music Myself Sound
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
DAVE GROHL

Drummer Handicapped Leaving Park Space
There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
DAVE GROHL

Greatness Heart Broken Music Myself

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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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