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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.

Dave Grohl

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
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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Important Learning Myself People Play Sing
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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Beautiful Down Important Minimalism Myself Strip
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
How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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Best Humble Myself Stay
It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.
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Beautiful Dirty Way
To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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Album Amazing Happiness Important People Song
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
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
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
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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Experience Greatness Myself Possible Tragedy
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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Decision Music Myself Stop
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
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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Different Greatness Music Myself People Reason
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
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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Goodness Myself Wake Up
I think I’m scared a lot. I’m scared of almost everything. And I’m constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it’s a present, past, or future relationship.
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Future Myself Obstacle Past Relationship Scare Try Work
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
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Element Human Important Music Myself
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
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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Age Day Machine Magic People Replacement Room Yourself
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
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
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Cool Family Happiness Health Important
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
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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Education Mom Myself Thankful
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
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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Digital Easy Forget People Record
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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Feeling Fight Force Pull

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