The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
DAVE GROHLEverybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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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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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’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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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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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The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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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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There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
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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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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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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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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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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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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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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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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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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.
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