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 GROHLBecause 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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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 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.
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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
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You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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