I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
DAVE GROHLThe most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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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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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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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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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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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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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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 listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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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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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’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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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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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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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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 stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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