Foo Fighters Quotes

• 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

  People, Playing Music, Audacity

  "I've never gotten off on chaos". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Grandparent, Fighter

  "Nirvana Reunion Tour? Dave Grohl’s Reps Say Rumors Are ‘Nonsense’" by Madeline Boardman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.

  Dave Grohl

  Fighter, Feels Right, Ifs

  "Dave Grohl: The ‘Sonic Highways’ Exit Interview". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. December 8, 2014.

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• 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

  Travel, Kings, Heaven

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• I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

  Dave Grohl

  Love Is, Musician, Fighter

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• You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Years, Band

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• Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

  Neil Young

  Morning, Son, People

  Neil Young (2012). “Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe”, p.210, Penguin

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• I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga, and opening for artists such as Sheryl Crow, Jack White, and Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, etc.

  Wendy Starland

  Running, Artist, White

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• 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

  Mean, Years, Want

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• I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.

  Chris Hoy

  Brother, Ipods, Enemy

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Names

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

  Dave Grohl

  Gone Away, Love Of My Life, Feelings

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Song, Rocks

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

  Dave Grohl

  Band, Fighter, Music Love

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Opportunity, Night

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• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  Nate Mendel

  Sex, Practice, Hiv

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

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• My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

  Rachael Ray

  Dream, Jobs, Rocks

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

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Fighter, Ifs

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• It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

  Sheryl Crow

  Heart, Differences, Interesting

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