Dave Grohl Quotes

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• No one is you, and that is your power.

  Dave Grohl

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• 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 something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

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  Make Someone Happy, Light, Inspire

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• 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.

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  Song, Play, Devil

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  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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  Song, People, Different

  "Twenty years after In Utero, Nirvana's importance hasn't diminished" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

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  You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

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  Hate, Careers, Things You Love

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• Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

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  Light, Hopeless

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• 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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  Thinking, Passionate, Want

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• Always have the highest bar for yourself.

  Dave Grohl

  Bars, Highest

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• Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'

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  Wall, Thinking, Looks

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• When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.

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  Forever, Way, Lasts

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

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  Hero, Looks, Inspired

  "Nirvana Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Video)" by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2014.

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

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  Humble, Stay Humble, Be Humble

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 9, 2013.

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

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  Bars, Music Is, Walks

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• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, People, Important

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

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  Wake Up, Wow

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• At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

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  Song, Book, Writing

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• Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

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  Wall, Cancer, Artist

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• 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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  Real, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Foo Fighters Win, Defend Rock Music At VMAS" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2011.

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

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  Important, Elements, Music Is

  "Dave Grohl On Grammy Speech: Rocker Clarifies A Few Things". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• 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.

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  People, Magic, Age

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

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  Things In Life, Priceless

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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• 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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  Years, Lucky, Half

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• When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

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  Engineering, Audio, Next

  "Smells Like Teen Nostalgia" by Maggie Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. January 28, 2013.

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• To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

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  Sexy, Party, Adorable

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• One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

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  Body, Great Things

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