I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
DAVE GROHLAlways have the highest bar for yourself.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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It’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.
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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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