Dave Grohl Quotes
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If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
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When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
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I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
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People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.
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One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.
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There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.
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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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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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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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The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
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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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I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
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I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.
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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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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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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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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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Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.
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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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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.