All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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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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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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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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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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’
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