If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
DAVE GROHLWhen 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.
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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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 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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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock 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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Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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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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