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Dave Grohl Biography

David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film director. He was the longest-serving drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and is the founder, frontman, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Foo Fighters. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, and wrote the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot. He has also recorded and frequently toured with the rock band Queens of the Stone Age.

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From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

1991, Came, Nirvana, Over It, September, Years

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Encouraged, People, Should, Think, Thinking

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.

Know, Song, Storm, Takes, Writing, Years

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

Humming, Italian, Light, Lights, Scream, Trying

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

Aggressive, Dark, Listening, Side, Sides

When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

Beginning, Journey, Map, Order, Record, Song

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Albums, Meant, Perfect, Sound

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.

Beautiful, Good, Hands, Hero, Men, Wonderful

We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.

Home, Play, Rest, Shows

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Fun, Good, Studio, Walk, Walks, Wander

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

Kids, Minister, Sale, Trying, Yard, Yards

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

Band, Guitar, Instrument, Long, Playing

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.

Band, Bands, Fighter, Love, Making, Music Love

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

Fun, People, Thing, Together

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

Afterlife, Drums, Seattle, Suitcases, Took

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

Bad, Band, Divorce, Existences, Manager, Rocks

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. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

Heart, Instrument, Learning, Microphone, People, Play

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!'

Gonna, Look, Looks, Poster, Thinking, Wall

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

Hero, Looks, Inspired, Look, Heroes

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

Obstacle, Past, Present, Relationship, Thinking, Trying

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