Quotes By Dave Grohl

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

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.

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

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

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.

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?

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.