Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
DAVE GROHLI listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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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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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.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.
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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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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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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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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 you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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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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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 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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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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