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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.

Dave Grohl

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
DAVE GROHL

Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself
Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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Development Love Work Yourself
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.
DAVE GROHL

Drummer Fake Guitar Music Myself Play Teaching
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.
DAVE GROHL

Charge Furniture Myself Organization Work
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
DAVE GROHL

Drums Hope Myself Work
It’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.
DAVE GROHL

Brilliant Intelligence Moon Music
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.
DAVE GROHL

Difference Fall In Love Marriage Person Yourself
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.
DAVE GROHL

Album Amazing Happiness Important People Song
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
DAVE GROHL

Best Microphone Myself Time
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
DAVE GROHL

Comfortable Feeling Loud
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
DAVE GROHL

Easy Family Friendship Old Popular
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
DAVE GROHL

Alcohol Clothes Fashion Gift Myself
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
DAVE GROHL

Death Equality Music Myself Quit
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.
DAVE GROHL

Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
It’s not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I’m Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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Adult Imagination Listening Myself Parents Recent
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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Drummer Instrument Music Myself Song

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