Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

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

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

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

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 was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

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

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

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.

That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

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