Dave Grohl Quotes
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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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
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My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.
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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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For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.
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You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
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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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It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
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A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
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Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?
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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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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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I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
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It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.
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A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.
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Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
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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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I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
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I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
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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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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.