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.
DAVE GROHLIf it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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 come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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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 stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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 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’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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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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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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