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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
We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
— Dave Grohl
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
I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
— Dave Grohl
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
— Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl have said a lot of really nice things about me that I don't know I deserve but it's nice of him regardless.
— Reed Mullin
I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
— Dave Grohl
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
— Dave Grohl
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
No one is you, and that is your power.
— Dave Grohl
What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?
— Dave Grohl
I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited.
— Ted Nugent
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
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
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
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
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
— Dave Grohl
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
— Dave Grohl
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
— Dave Grohl
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
— Dave Grohl
Paul McCartney or Dave Grohl?" He wanted to know what version I'd had in my head as I played "Blackbird." "Paul McCartney. Always." "Big
— Vi Keeland
I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
— Taylor Hawkins
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
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
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
— Dave Grohl
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
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.
— Dave Grohl
Nickelback walks into a bar ... there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.
— Dave Grohl
I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.
— Dave Grohl
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
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
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
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
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
— Dave Grohl
I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.
— Dave Grohl
'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!
— Dave Grohl
It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
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
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
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.
— Dave Grohl
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
— Dave Grohl
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
— Dave Grohl
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
— Dave Grohl
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
— Dave Grohl
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
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
You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
— Dave Grohl
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
— Dave Grohl
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
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.
— Dave Grohl
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
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
— Dave Grohl
I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
— Dave Grohl
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
— Dave Grohl
You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
— Dave Grohl
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