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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.

Dave Grohl

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
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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Drums Hope Myself Work
When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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Afraid Children Excitement Young 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
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
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
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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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
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
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
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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Charge Furniture Myself Organization Work
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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Coffee Music Myself Paper People Play
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
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
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
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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Heroes Inspirational Intimidation Myself
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Education Mom Myself Thankful

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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