Dave Grohl quotes - page 2

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. (Dave Grohl)

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

Dave Grohl

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Dave Grohl

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Dave Grohl

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

Dave Grohl

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

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 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

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Dave Grohl

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

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)

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

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

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

Dave Grohl

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

Dave Grohl

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

Dave Grohl

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

Dave Grohl

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

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

Dave Grohl

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. (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

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

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

Dave Grohl

In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.

Dave Grohl

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