Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHLMom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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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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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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Singing 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.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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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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