My Favorite Quotes From People That I Know Dave Grohl Edition by Michael “MJ The Terrible” Johnson:
“Look beyond appearance before you judge. Appearance only tells part of a person’s story.” Dave Grohl
“Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, and destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.” Dave Grohl
“Be like water. Let it flow bro.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“I dropped out of high school, and I couldn’t go to college “because I wasn’t smart enough”, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.” Dave Grohl
“As it is above, so will it be below.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“I would love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.” Dave Grohl
“I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.” Dave Grohl
“When I joined Nirvana, I was the 5th or 6th 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.” Dave Grohl
“I’ve experienced great things; I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.” Dave Grohl
“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
“Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America! Land of the free! Home of the brave!” Dave Grohl
“From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.” Dave Grohl
“I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.” Dave Grohl
“If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.” Dave Grohl
“There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock ‘n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.” Dave Grohl
“In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.” Dave Grohl
“All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So, I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.” Dave Grohl
“When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.” Dave Grohl
“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 for me. Heaven on earth.” Dave Grohl
“If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.” Dave Grohl
“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?” Dave Grohl
“Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?” Dave Grohl
“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.” Dave Grohl
“A musician should only sound like what they do, and no 2 musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feeling thing, you know?” Dave Grohl
“I love to play music. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.” Dave Grohl
“Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.” Dave Grohl
“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.” Dave Grohl
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