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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.

Dave Grohl

Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Hope Light
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
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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Brilliant Intelligence Moon Music
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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Fun Goodness People Togetherness
It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Beautiful Dirty Way
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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Easy Family Friendship Old Popular
How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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Best Humble Myself Stay
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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Amazing Best Experience Myself Time Worst
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
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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Drummer Instrument Music Myself Song
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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Experience Greatness Myself Possible Tragedy
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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Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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Cool Family Happiness Health Important
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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Career Greatness Hate Pursue Yourself
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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Better Come Feeling Forever Fortunate Myself Way
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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Feeling Fight Force Pull
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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Decision Music Myself Stop
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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Greatness Heart Broken Music Myself
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Digital Easy Forget People Record
When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
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Count Focus Goodness Old Time Trophy Yourself
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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America Cool Place Thinking
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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Generation Important Oneself Time
If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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Music Myself Team
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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Fire Listen Music Myself
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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Cute Myself School Stupidity Teacher Thinking
Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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Development Love Work Yourself
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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Drummer Fake Guitar Music Myself Play Teaching

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