What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
DAVE GROHLGuilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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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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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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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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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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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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