The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
DAVE GROHLHow do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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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 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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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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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.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
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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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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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