Dave Grohl Quotes
No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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.
To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.
I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.
It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.
When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.
People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.
I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.
I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.
I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.
'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.
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.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.
I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.
Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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.
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.