There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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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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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 listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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