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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.

Dave Grohl

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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Cool Family Happiness Health Important
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
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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Best Microphone Myself Time
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Sports Stars Yourself
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
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Drummer Fake Guitar Music Myself Play Teaching
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
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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Devil Funny Message Play Song Worst Yourself
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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Difference Fall In Love Marriage Person Yourself
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
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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Heroes Inspirational Intimidation Myself
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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Important Learning Myself People Play Sing
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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Believe Change Generation History Important Myself People
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
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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Life Listening Machine Music Myself Sound
Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Hope Light
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
There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
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Children Music Team
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Encouragement Myself People Thinking
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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Drugs Myself Start
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
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
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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Appearance Body Drugs Myself Skin Time Work
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
There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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Life Love Music Myself
The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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Apply Generation Music Ourselves
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHL

Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself

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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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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