Dave Grohl Quotes
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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 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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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 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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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
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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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How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.
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A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."
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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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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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With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
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The human element of making music is what's most important.
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I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.