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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Dave Grohl

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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Important Learning Myself People Play Sing
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Comfortable Feeling Loud
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
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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Experience Greatness Myself Possible Tragedy
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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America Cool Place Thinking
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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Career Greatness Hate Pursue Yourself
Because 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.
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Computer Instrument Music Myself People Rock Station
No one is you, and that is your power.
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Instagram Captions Power Self Love Yourself
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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Future Myself Obstacle Past Relationship Scare Try Work
As I get older… I start to realize that life ain’t half bad. Each year, I’m amazed that I’m still alive. I don’t take any of this for granted, I’m a lucky dude.
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Alive Grant Myself Old Realization Start
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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Feeling Fight Force Pull
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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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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Believe Change Generation History Important Myself People
Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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Hope Light
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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Heroes Inspirational Intimidation Myself
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Digital Easy Forget People Record
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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Better Come Feeling Forever Fortunate Myself Way
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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Fire Listen Music Myself
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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.
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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Beautiful Dirty Way
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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Drums Hope Myself Work
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.
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Happiness Music Myself Satisfaction Strange Team
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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Drummer Handicapped Leaving Park Space
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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Fun Goodness People Togetherness
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
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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Artist Cancer Destroy Guilty Yourself

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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