All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
DAVE GROHLI believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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 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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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
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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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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
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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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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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