Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHLIt’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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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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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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