I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
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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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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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It’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.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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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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I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
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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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Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
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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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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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