Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.
DAVE GROHLIf it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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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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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 nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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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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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
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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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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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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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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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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