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There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f___ing Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f___ing show… f___ that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
The human element of making music is what's most important.
Dave Grohl Nirvana