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.
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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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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