Dave Grohl Quotes

• All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

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• Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‘Glee.’ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

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• 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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• I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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

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• I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.

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• 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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• I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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• I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

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

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• I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

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• Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

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• The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

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• 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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• There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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• Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

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• 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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• When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

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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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• 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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Dave Grohl (43)

Birth:	14th January, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Singer, Songwriter

About

David Eric "Dave" Grohl was born in Warren, Ohio. He is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and producer who is best known as the former drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and the founder and frontman of the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the main songwriter, lead singer, and rhythm guitarist. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.

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