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

Dave Grohl

There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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Better Hands Waves Yourself
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Sports Stars Yourself
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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Feeling Fight Force Pull
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Death Equality Music Myself Quit
There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
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Children Music Team
There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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Greatness Heart Broken Music Myself
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
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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Brilliant Intelligence Moon Music
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
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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Cute Myself School Stupidity Teacher Thinking
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
The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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Apply Generation Music Ourselves
Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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Development Love Work Yourself
If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Music Myself Team
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
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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Difference Fall In Love Marriage Person Yourself
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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Alcohol Clothes Fashion Gift Myself
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’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
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Element Human Important Music Myself
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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Drive Life Thinking Yourself
When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
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Count Focus Goodness Old Time Trophy Yourself
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
Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Hope Light
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
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Decision Music Myself Stop
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Encouragement Myself People Thinking
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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Drummer Handicapped Leaving Park Space

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

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