When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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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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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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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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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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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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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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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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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