How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
DAVE GROHLIn this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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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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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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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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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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