Grohl Quotes

#1. I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

Taylor Hawkins

#2. I had a little indie label called No Core and Dave Grohl's first band was called, Dain Bramage so I out an album for them and for whatever reason, he's never forgot it and has always been super nice to me since.

Reed Mullin

#3. I have to say that Dave's Grohl amazing too. You see all these interviews with him and he seems like the coolest and nicest guy on camera, but he really is when he's off too! I was fortunate enough to know him before he was a big rock star when I put out his very first band's album.

Reed Mullin

#4. I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

B.o.B

#5. Paul McCartney or Dave Grohl?" He wanted to know what version I'd had in my head as I played "Blackbird." "Paul McCartney. Always." "Big

Vi Keeland

#6. When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

#7. I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited.

Ted Nugent

#8. Dave Grohl have said a lot of really nice things about me that I don't know I deserve but it's nice of him regardless.

Reed Mullin

#9. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'

Jeff Ament

#10. I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.

Malin Akerman

#11. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

Dave Grohl

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

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#13. 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.

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

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#16. 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.

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

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

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#28. Nickelback walks into a bar ... there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

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#29. 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.

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#30. I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

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#31. 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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#32. It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.

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#33. 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.

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

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

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#37. 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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#38. The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

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#42. You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.

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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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?

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#47. I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

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#48. You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

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#49. 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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#50. From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

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#51. Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

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

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#54. 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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#55. 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.

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

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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

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

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#64. 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.

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

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#66. I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

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#67. 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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#68. 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.

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

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

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

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

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#76. At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

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#77. It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

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#78. If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

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#79. People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. No one is you, and that is your power.

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#83. 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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#84. 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.

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#85. 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.

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#86. It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

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#87. I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

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

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#95. There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.

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#96. All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

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

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

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

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