Dave Grohl Quotes

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• The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and…
• The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
• 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.
• 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.…
• I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal…
• 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…
• 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,…
• I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
• 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…
• I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect,
• Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do,
• You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.
• Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
• What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?
• The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that…
• 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.
• 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…
• Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
• 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…
• Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do…

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