Latest Dave Grohl Quotes from Interviews

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• To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

  Dave Grohl

  Sexy, Party, Adorable

• The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

  Dave Grohl

  Wife, Musician, Deaf

• I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.

  Dave Grohl

  House, Exciting, Gates

• A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Cities, Sound

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element — In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

• You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

  Dave Grohl

  Technology, World, Singers

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

• There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

  Dave Grohl

  Things In Life, Priceless

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

• I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Musician, Legends

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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

  Dave Grohl

  Tape, Settling, Manipulate

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

• It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

  Dave Grohl

  Musician, Brilliant, Moonlight

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

• Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Sound, Doe, Different

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

• Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.

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  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• The late '60s and the '70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the world and the Neve boards were considered like the Cadillacs of recording consoles. They're these really big, behemoth-looking recording desks; they kind of look like they're from the Enterprise in Star Trek or something like that. They're like a grayish color, sort of like an old Army tank with lots of knobs, and to any studio geek or gear enthusiast it's like the coolest toy in the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Stars, Army

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

• I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

  Dave Grohl

  Black, Band, Debt

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

  Dave Grohl

  Believe, People, Political

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

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

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  Fighter, Feels Right, Ifs

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

• When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Answers, Lessons

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

• If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Trying, Musician

• I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

  Dave Grohl

  Divorce, Rocks, Band

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

  Dave Grohl

  Beer, Hands, Bottles

• 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.

• 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.

• Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Emotional, Impact

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

• I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

  Dave Grohl

  Years, Storage Space, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

• I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.

  Dave Grohl

  Technology, Emotional, Thinking

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Chicago, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.