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.
DAVE GROHLBeing in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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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 think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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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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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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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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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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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 love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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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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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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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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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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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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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 it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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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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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