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 GROHLI 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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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There’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.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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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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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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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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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’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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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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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