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.
DAVE GROHLI 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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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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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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.
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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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In 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.
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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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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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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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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
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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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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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