When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
DAVE GROHLIn this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
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 nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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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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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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