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.
DAVE GROHLI’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.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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 think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
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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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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
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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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