Explore Quotes by 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.

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

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.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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