Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
DAVE GROHLI once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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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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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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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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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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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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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
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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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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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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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If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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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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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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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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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
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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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