Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’
DAVE GROHLIf there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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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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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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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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 stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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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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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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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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