What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’
DAVE GROHLPeople are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
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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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There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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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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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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 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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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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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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