Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.
DAVE GROHLDon’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!’
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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No one is you, and that is your power.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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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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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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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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There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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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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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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 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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