Top 180 Dave Grohl Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

55. “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

56. “I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.”

— Dave Grohl

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.”

— Dave Grohl

61. “When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.”

— Dave Grohl

62. “It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.”

— Dave Grohl

63. “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

64. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

65. “If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.”

— Dave Grohl

66. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

67. “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

68. “But beyond any biological information, there is love. Something that defies all science and reason. And that I am most fortunate to have been given. It maybe the most defining factor in anyone’s life. Surely an artist greatest muse. And there is no love like a mother’s love. It is life’s greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who has given us life. For without them, there would be no music.”

— Dave Grohl

69. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

70. “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

71. “Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.”

— Dave Grohl

72. “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

73. “I love my children as I was loved as a child, and I pray that they will do the same when their time comes. Some cycles are meant to be broken. Some are meant to be reinforced.”

— Dave Grohl

74. “To me, that is beauty. Not the gleam of prefabricated perfection, but the road-worn beauty of individuality, time, and wisdom.”

— Dave Grohl

75. “In a way, I cherish my numerous heartbreaks almost more than the actual love that preceded them, because the heartbreak has always proven to me that I can feel.”

— Dave Grohl

76. “When I was seventeen years old, music had become my counselor when I needed guidance, my friend when I felt alone, my father when I needed love, my preacher when I needed hope, and my partner when I needed to belong.”

— Dave Grohl

77. “I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty.”

— Dave Grohl

78. “But with friends, you design your own relationship, which in turn designs your grief, which can be felt even deeper when they are gone. Those can be roots that are much harder to pull.”

— Dave Grohl

79. “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

80. “We never had much, but we always had enough.”

— Dave Grohl

81. “So, when you hear that parade coming down the street, spreading joy and love with every note, don’t just listen; join in the march. You never know where it may lead you.”

— Dave Grohl

82. “I have always measured my life in musical increments rather than months or years. My mind faithfully relies on songs, albums, and bands to remember a particular time and place.”

— Dave Grohl

83. “I was a bit of a misfit, longing to feel understood, waiting for someone to accept the real me.”

— Dave Grohl

84. “I have never been one to collect “stuff,” I do collect moments.”

— Dave Grohl

85. “Sometimes I forget that I’ve aged.”

— Dave Grohl

86. “It’s not always the kid that fails the school. Sometimes it’s the school that fails the kid.”

— Dave Grohl

87. “To really see America, you need to drive it mile by mile. Because you not only begin to grasp the immensity of this beautiful country, you see the climate and geography change with every state line. These are indeed things that cannot be learned from an old school book under the cold classroom lights. They must be seen, heard, and felt in person to be truly appreciated.”

— Dave Grohl

88. “I was learning about languages and cultures I never would have experienced in school. The physicality of actually being in these places deepened my understanding of the world as a community, which is much smaller than most imagine.”

— Dave Grohl

89. “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

90. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

91. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

92. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

93. “A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?”

— Dave Grohl

94. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

95. “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

96. “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

97. “I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.”

— Dave Grohl

98. “You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.”

— Dave Grohl

99. “Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!”

— Dave Grohl

100. “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