Top 180 Dave Grohl Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.”

— Dave Grohl

102. “Sometimes, you can’t save someone from themselves.”

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

104. “At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.”

— Dave Grohl

105. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

106. “I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.”

— Dave Grohl

107. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

108. “The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.”

— Dave Grohl

109. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

110. “I’m obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.”

— Dave Grohl

111. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

112. “I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?”

— Dave Grohl

113. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

114. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

116. “I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ’cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.”

— Dave Grohl

117. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

118. “I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.”

— Dave Grohl

119. “There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.”

— Dave Grohl

120. “I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.”

— Dave Grohl

121. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

122. “I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.”

— Dave Grohl

123. “People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.”

— Dave Grohl

124. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

125. “When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.”

— Dave Grohl

126. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

127. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

128. “It’s not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I’m Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.”

— Dave Grohl

129. “I’m not allergic to fashion. I’m just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they’re going to a funeral or to court.”

— Dave Grohl

130. “There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.”

— Dave Grohl

131. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

132. “And there is no love like a mother’s love. It is life’s greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music.”

— Dave Grohl

133. “Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does.”

— Dave Grohl

134. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

135. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

136. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

137. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

138. “A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.”

— Dave Grohl

139. “Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.”

— Dave Grohl

140. “After all, you are only as happy as your unhappiest child.”

— Dave Grohl

141. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

142. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

143. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

144. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

145. “There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.”

— Dave Grohl

146. “Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.”

— Dave Grohl

147. “What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.”

— Dave Grohl

148. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

149. “Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.”

— Dave Grohl

150. “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.”

— Dave Grohl