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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?

Dave Grohl

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
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
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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Better Come Feeling Forever Fortunate Myself Way
You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
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Career Greatness Hate Pursue 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
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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Best Microphone Myself Time
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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Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team
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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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
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
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Hope Light
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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Generation Important Oneself Time
There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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Life Price Value Wisdom Yourself
Being 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.
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Amazing Best Experience Myself Time Worst
The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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Apply Generation Music Ourselves
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
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Encouragement Myself People Thinking
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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Inspirational Motivational Myself Possible Poster Thinking
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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America Cool Place Thinking
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Death Equality Music Myself Quit
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
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
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
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Sports Stars Yourself
When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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Afraid Children Excitement Young Yourself
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Element Human Important Music Myself
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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Drugs Myself Start

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