When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
DAVE GROHLHow come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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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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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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At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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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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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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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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 stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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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?
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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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