Best Dave Grohl Quotes

#1. 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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#2. When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

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#3. Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

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#4. There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

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#5. I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

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#6. 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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#7. The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

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#8. Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

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#9. I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

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#10. I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

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#11. You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.

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#12. It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.

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#13. My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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#14. It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

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#15. When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

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#16. 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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#17. How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

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#18. The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

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#19. There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

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#20. 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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#21. Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

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#22. 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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#23. I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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#24. When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

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#25. My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

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#26. It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

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#27. I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

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#28. As I get older ... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

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#29. What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

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#30. Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

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#31. I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

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#32. From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

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#33. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

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#34. We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

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#35. When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

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#36. I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

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#37. Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

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#38. The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

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#39. Nickelback walks into a bar ... there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

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#40. 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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#41. I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

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#42. What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

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