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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!’

Dave Grohl

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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Charge Furniture Myself Organization Work
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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Inspirational Motivational Myself Possible Poster Thinking
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
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
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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Devil Funny Message Play Song Worst Yourself
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
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
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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Bar High Yourself
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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Life Listening Machine Music Myself Sound
It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Beautiful Dirty Way
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.
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Difference Fall In Love Marriage Person Yourself
When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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Afraid Children Excitement Young 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.
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Drummer Fake Guitar Music Myself Play Teaching
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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Amazing Best Experience Myself Time Worst
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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Brilliant Intelligence Moon Music
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
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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Cute Myself School Stupidity Teacher Thinking
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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Count Focus Goodness Old Time Trophy Yourself
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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Drugs Myself Start
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
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
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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Faith Hard Lose Music Search Yourself
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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Hands History Music Personal Play Yourself
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
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Easy Family Friendship Old Popular
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
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
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

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