Top 180 Dave Grohl Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.”

— Dave Grohl

152. “I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.”

— Dave Grohl

153. “I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.”

— Dave Grohl

154. “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

155. “Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.”

— Dave Grohl

156. “When you’re recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There’s not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.”

— Dave Grohl

157. “Going out and playing music – that’s what I do. I don’t do much else.”

— Dave Grohl

158. “People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it’s like your grandparents getting divorced – it’s not gonna happen.”

— Dave Grohl

159. “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

160. “It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.”

— Dave Grohl

161. “From the time that ‘Nevermind’ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.”

— Dave Grohl

162. “Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‘Glee.’ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.”

— Dave Grohl

163. “Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.”

— Dave Grohl

164. “Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn’t carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles.”

— Dave Grohl

165. “Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?”

— Dave Grohl

166. “Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.”

— Dave Grohl

167. “In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.”

— Dave Grohl

168. “It’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.”

— Dave Grohl

169. “When you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.”

— Dave Grohl

170. “I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.”

— Dave Grohl

171. “Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.”

— Dave Grohl

172. “The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.”

— Dave Grohl

173. “You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.”

— Dave Grohl

174. “No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.”

— Dave Grohl

175. “I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.”

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

177. “It’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.”

— Dave Grohl

178. “It seems that everywhere I turn there is a reminder to be found, and I have come to a place where they no longer break my heart; they make me smile.”

— Dave Grohl

179. “This band, born from the heartbreak and tragedy of our broken past, was a celebration of love, and life, and the dedication to finding happiness in every next day.”

— Dave Grohl

180. “I could always tell when a chorus was coming by watching Kurt’s dirty Converse sneaker as it moved closer and closer to the distortion pedal, and just before he stomped on the button, I would blast into a single-stroke snare roll with all of my might, like a fuse burning fast into the heart of a bomb, signaling the change. The subsequent eruption would often send chills up my neck, as the undeniable power of our collective sound was becoming almost too big for that tiny little space.”

— Dave Grohl

181. “That I would celebrate the ensuing years by embracing the toll they’d take on me.”

— Dave Grohl

182. “I knew deep down that nothing would ever compare to what Nirvana had gifted to the world. That dort of thing only happens once in a lifetime.”

— Dave Grohl

183. “Trust me, the sweet sting of a love refused is powerful enough to send any scribe scrambling for pen and paper.”

— Dave Grohl