Dave Grohl

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

— Dave Grohl

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

— Dave Grohl

No one is you, and that is your power.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

— Dave Grohl

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

— Dave Grohl

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all…

— Dave Grohl

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

— Dave Grohl

You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think…

— Dave Grohl

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a…

— Dave Grohl

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in…

— Dave Grohl

I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too…

— Dave Grohl

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing…

— Dave Grohl

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a…

— Dave Grohl

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of…

— 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…

— Dave Grohl

The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed……

— Dave Grohl

Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I…

— Dave Grohl

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear…

— Dave Grohl

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise…

— Dave Grohl

To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all…

— Dave Grohl

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of…

— Dave Grohl

The late '60s and the '70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the…

— Dave Grohl

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any…

— Dave Grohl

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

— Dave Grohl

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

— Dave Grohl

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

— Dave Grohl

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America,

— Dave Grohl

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

— Dave Grohl

Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl