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.
Interpretation
Music is enduring and will always be a part of creation, regardless of the form it takes.
In this quote, Dave Grohl emphasizes the timeless nature of music and the passion for creating it. He suggests that while the methods and environments for making music may change, the act of making music itself is an essential and unending part of life for those who are deeply connected to it.
In practice
During a speech at a music festival, one might say, 'As Dave Grohl reminds us, music will never go away; it’s our duty to keep creating.'
There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.
I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
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