Top 180 Dave Grohl Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No one is you, and that is your power.”

— Dave Grohl

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2. “Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.”

— Dave Grohl

3. “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

4. “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!’”

— Dave Grohl

5. “Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.”

— Dave Grohl

6. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

7. “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

8. “When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.”

— Dave Grohl

9. “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

10. “Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.”

— Dave Grohl

11. “Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.”

— Dave Grohl

12. “Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.”

— Dave Grohl

13. “The human element of making music is what’s most important.”

— Dave Grohl

14. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

15. “I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.”

— Dave Grohl

16. “It’s nice when people are happy to hear that you’re still alive, rather than feeling like “Oh, finally he’s dead?””

— Dave Grohl

17. “The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.”

— Dave Grohl

18. “I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.”

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

20. “My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.”

— Dave Grohl

21. “Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you’re done.”

— Dave Grohl

22. “Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.”

— Dave Grohl

23. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

24. “How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.”

— Dave Grohl

25. “You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.”

— Dave Grohl

26. “A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: “Okay, you know what? I’m going to play music, and hopefully I’ll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that’s what I’m going to do.””

— Dave Grohl

27. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

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28. “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?”

— Dave Grohl

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29. “I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you f – ing like something, like it.”

— Dave Grohl

30. “I’m told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit – I was sweating honey.”

— Dave Grohl

31. “I was born to let my freak flag fly and celebrate all of life’s beautiful eccentricities.”

— Dave Grohl

32. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

33. “There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.”

— Dave Grohl

34. “From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.”

— Dave Grohl

35. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

36. “What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?”

— Dave Grohl

37. “For, in a world full of Barbies, every girl needs a Joan Jett.”

— Dave Grohl

38. “When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.”

— Dave Grohl

39. “Always have the highest bar for yourself.”

— Dave Grohl

40. “I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school. 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

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

44. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

45. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

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46. “Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.”

— Dave Grohl

47. “Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there’s old luggage, a couple of bikes. It’s big enough to put one minivan in. That’s it. No dartboard. I’m so not macho.”

— Dave Grohl

48. “I always loved writing songs – writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.”

— Dave Grohl

49. “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

50. “Punk rock became my professor in a school with no rules, only teaching the lesson that you need no lessons and that every person has a voice to be heard, no matter the sound.”

— Dave Grohl