I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
DAVE GROHLSinging 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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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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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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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I think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.
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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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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!’
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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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Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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