I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
DAVE GROHLI love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
DAVE GROHLThere’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
DAVE GROHLYou will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
DAVE GROHLWhat we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
DAVE GROHLI 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.
DAVE GROHLSinging 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.
DAVE GROHLThe best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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.
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.
DAVE GROHLEverybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
DAVE GROHLThere’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.
DAVE GROHLWhen 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?
DAVE GROHLWhen 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.
DAVE GROHLWhen Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
DAVE GROHLNo one is you, and that is your power.
DAVE GROHLWhat’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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