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’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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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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 you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by 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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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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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’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
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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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At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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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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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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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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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