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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.

Dave Grohl

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
What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’
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Drummer Instrument Music Myself Song
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Education Mom Myself Thankful
Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Hope Light
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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Important Learning Myself People Play Sing
How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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Best Humble Myself Stay
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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Age Day Machine Magic People Replacement Room Yourself
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
You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
DAVE GROHL

Career Greatness Hate Pursue Yourself
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHL

Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself
It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Beautiful Dirty Way
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
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
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
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
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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Adult Imagination Listening Myself Parents Recent

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