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.
DAVE GROHLTo 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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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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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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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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Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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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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