Top 180 Dave Grohl Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!”

— 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. “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

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

128. “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

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. “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

143. “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

144. “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

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

— Dave Grohl

146. “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

147. “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

148. “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.”

— Dave Grohl

149. “To me, it is god. A divine mystery in whose power I will forever hold an unconditional trust. And it is moments like these that cement my faith. 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

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

— Dave Grohl