Dave Grohl Quotes

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Love

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Recording

• Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Children

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting

• Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sequence

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Generation

• 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

  Topics in College

  Tags in School

• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Organization

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kid

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy

• I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Great

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Musician

• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Happen

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Child

• It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Like

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• 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

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Happiness

• My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

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

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Music

• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard

Dave Grohl (43)

Birth:	14th January, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Singer, Songwriter

About

David Eric "Dave" Grohl was born in Warren, Ohio. He is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and producer who is best known as the former drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and the founder and frontman of the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the main songwriter, lead singer, and rhythm guitarist. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.

Related Authors

• Bret Michaels
• Gene Simmons
• Tennessee Ernie Ford
• Ronnie Montrose
• William Earl Collins
• Nile Rodgers
• Thomas Howes
• Lead Belly
• Robert Merrill
• Earl Scruggs

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 2nd March

Births

• 1938 - Ricardo Lagos
• 1917 - Desi Arnaz
• 1953 - Russ Feingold
• 1859 - Sholem Aleichem
• 1820 - Multatuli

Deaths

• 1930 - D. H. Lawrence
• 1949 - Sarojini Naidu
• 1991 - Serge Gainsbourg
• 1982 - Philip K. Dick
• 2005 - Martin Denny