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 GROHLI 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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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 nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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In 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.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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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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