When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
DAVE GROHLFrom one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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I think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.
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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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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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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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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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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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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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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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I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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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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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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