Quotes By Dave Grohl

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.

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.

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.

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

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

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.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

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.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

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

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

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

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

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

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