What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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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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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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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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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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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It’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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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.
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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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
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