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.
DAVE GROHLMom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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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 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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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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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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 once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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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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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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