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.
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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There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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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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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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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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