Dave Grohl Music Quotes

#1. Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.

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#2. No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

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#3. I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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#4. 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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#5. When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

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#6. 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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#7. Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

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#8. I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

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#9. That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

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#10. The human element of making music is what's most important.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them

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#14. There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

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#17. I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

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

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#19. Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

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#20. Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

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#21. Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

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#22. Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

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#23. When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

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#24. Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Nickelback walks into a bar ... there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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