The Best Dave Grohl quotes

You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do. — Dave Grohl

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids. — Dave Grohl

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‘Glee.’ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing. — Dave Grohl

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters. — Dave Grohl

I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song. — Dave Grohl

There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life. — Dave Grohl

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

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more. — Dave Grohl

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

Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture. — Dave Grohl

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy–fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends. — Dave Grohl

It’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band. — Dave Grohl

What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’ — Dave Grohl

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia. — Dave Grohl

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! — Dave Grohl

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

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. — Dave Grohl

I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life. — Dave Grohl

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band. — Dave Grohl

It’s not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I’m Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’ — Dave Grohl

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone. — Dave Grohl

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records. — Dave Grohl

There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll. — Dave Grohl

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead–end street. — Dave Grohl

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. — Dave Grohl

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America. — Dave Grohl

The human element of making music is what’s most important. — Dave Grohl

When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. — Dave Grohl

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void. — Dave Grohl

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down. — Dave Grohl

Nickelback walks into a bar…there’s no punchline because ruining music isn’t funny. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too. — Dave Grohl

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. — Dave Grohl

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

For years i couldn’t even listen to any music, let alone a nirvana song. when kurt died, every time the radio came on, it broke my heart. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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

Going out and playing music–that’s what I do. I don’t do much else. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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

I can’t belIeve I’m talkIng to you. I feel lIke I’m meetIng a beatle, have you been playIng drums a lot? — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing. — Dave Grohl

Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock. — Dave Grohl

There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life. — Dave Grohl

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done. — Dave Grohl

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there. — Dave Grohl

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing… We’re f––ing movie stars. — Dave Grohl

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock–’n’–roll. I don’t have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn’t be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads. — Dave Grohl

Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want–ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Dave Grohl

Cause 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. — Dave Grohl

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

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. — Dave Grohl