Top 100 Dave Grohl Quotes

#1. I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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#2. 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.

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

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

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#5. I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

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#6. 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.

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#7. I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

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#8. 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.

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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

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#24. I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

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#25. Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

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#26. How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

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#27. I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

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#28. 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.

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

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#30. I had no idea what I was doing and I faked it and it worked

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#31. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

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#32. 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.'

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#33. 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.

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#34. I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

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

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#36. Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

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#37. I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.

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

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#39. 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.

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#40. It's every band's right, you shouldn't have to do f_ing Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his f_ing show ... f_ that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.

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#41. 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.

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#42. If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

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#43. If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

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#44. 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.

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#45. Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.

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#46. 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.

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

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#48. The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

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#49. 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.

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#50. If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

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#51. Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

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#52. 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.

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#53. Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

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

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#55. '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.'

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#56. 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.

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#57. '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!

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#58. The human element of making music is what's most important.

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#59. 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.

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#60. What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?

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#61. No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

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#62. I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

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#63. I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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#64. I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

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#65. When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

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#66. Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

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#67. When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

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

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#69. I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.

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#70. 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.

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#71. When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

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#72. 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.

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#73. 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.

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

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#75. There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

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#76. 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.

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#77. 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.

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#78. 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.

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#79. No one is you and that is your biggest power.

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#80. Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

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#81. 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.

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#82. 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.

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

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#84. It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

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#85. Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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

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#88. I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

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#89. I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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.

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#92. 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.

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#93. We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.

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#94. Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

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

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#96. I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

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#97. 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.

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#98. If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.

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#99. 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.

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#100. I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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