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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.

Dave Grohl

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
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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Feeling Fight Force Pull
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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Computer Instrument Music Myself People Rock Station
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
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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Drums Hope Myself Work
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
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Age Day Machine Magic People Replacement Room Yourself
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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Decision Music Myself Stop
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Sports Stars Yourself
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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Album Amazing Happiness Important People Song
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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Count Focus Goodness Old Time Trophy Yourself
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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Easy Family Friendship Old Popular
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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Hands History Music Personal Play Yourself
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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Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Encouragement Myself People Thinking
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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Drugs Love Music Myself Play
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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America Cool Place Thinking

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