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 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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
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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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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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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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