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.
DAVE GROHLI 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.
DAVE GROHLAt school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
DAVE GROHLI stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
DAVE GROHLBecause 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.
DAVE GROHLYou look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
DAVE GROHLThrough Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
DAVE GROHLIt was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
DAVE GROHLMom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
DAVE GROHLWhen 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 GROHLIf you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
DAVE GROHLI was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
DAVE GROHLYou will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
DAVE GROHLIf there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
DAVE GROHLIt’s not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I’m Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
DAVE GROHLI listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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.
DAVE GROHL