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.
DAVE GROHLAs I get older… I start to realize that life ain’t half bad. Each year, I’m amazed that I’m still alive. I don’t take any of this for granted, I’m a lucky dude.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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 believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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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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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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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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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