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.
DAVE GROHLEverybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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 believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.
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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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Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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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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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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 think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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