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.
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.
To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
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