Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHLNothing’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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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 believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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 best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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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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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
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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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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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