There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do. Dave Grohl Read Quote
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place. Dave Grohl Read Quote
There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‘Everlong’ is on it, or ‘Best of You’ is on it, and it’s really special. Dave Grohl Read Quote
Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life. Dave Grohl Read Quote
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record. Dave Grohl Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dave Grohl Read Quote