Dave Grohl

There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.

— Dave Grohl

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing…

— 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

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they…

— Dave Grohl

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you…

— Dave Grohl

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years…

— Dave Grohl

I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting…

— Dave Grohl

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that…

— Dave Grohl

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what…

— Dave Grohl

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs,…

— Dave Grohl

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

— 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…

— Dave Grohl

There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it,…

— Dave Grohl

CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band,…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

— Dave Grohl

The human element of making music is what's most important.

— Dave Grohl

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything…

— Dave Grohl

No one is you, and that is your power.

— Dave Grohl