I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.
DAVE GROHLWhen you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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 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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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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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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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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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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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I think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.
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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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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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Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.
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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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