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 GROHLThe human element of making music is what’s most important.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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As I get older… I start to realize that life ain’t half bad. Each year, I’m amazed that I’m still alive. I don’t take any of this for granted, I’m a lucky dude.
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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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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 love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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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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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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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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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’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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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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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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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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