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.
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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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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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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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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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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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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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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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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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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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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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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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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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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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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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