Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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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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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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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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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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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Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’
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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.
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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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