Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
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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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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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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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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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To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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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 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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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