Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHLIt’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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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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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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