Dave Grohl Quotes

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

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

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

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.

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.

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

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?

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

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.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

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

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

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.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

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.

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.

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

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.

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

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.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

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.

Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.