Top 180 Dave Grohl Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Dave Grohl

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. “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

7. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

21. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

25. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

29. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

40. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

42. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

43. “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

44. “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

45. “I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.”

— Dave Grohl

46. “I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.”

— Dave Grohl

47. “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

48. “If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.”

— Dave Grohl

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49. “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

50. “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.”

— Dave Grohl