I’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.
DAVE GROHLWhen Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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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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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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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 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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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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.
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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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