Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
DAVE GROHLThere’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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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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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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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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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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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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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