Dave Grohl Quotes
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There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.
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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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When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.
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Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?
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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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How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.
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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
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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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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 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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When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
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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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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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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 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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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.