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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Dave Grohl

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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Cool Family Happiness Health Important
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Digital Easy Forget People Record
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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Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself
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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Computer Instrument Music Myself People Rock Station
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.
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Drummer Fake Guitar Music Myself Play Teaching
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Sports Stars Yourself
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
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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Amazing Best Experience Myself Time Worst
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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Experience Greatness Myself Possible Tragedy
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
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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Better Come Feeling Forever Fortunate Myself Way
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
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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America Cool Place Thinking
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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Faith Hard Lose Music Search Yourself
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
As I get older… I start to realize that life ain’t half bad. Each year, I’m amazed that I’m still alive. I don’t take any of this for granted, I’m a lucky dude.
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Alive Grant Myself Old Realization Start

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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