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
When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. – Dave Grohl
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that. – Dave Grohl
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
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in. – Dave Grohl
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief. – Dave Grohl
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
I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing. – Dave Grohl
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down. – 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
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
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
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. – Dave Grohl
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. – Dave Grohl
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. – Dave Grohl
There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll. – Dave Grohl
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. – Dave Grohl
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. – Dave Grohl
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. – Dave Grohl
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. – Dave Grohl
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition. – Dave Grohl
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. – Dave Grohl
I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO. – 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
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