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 Future
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. -Dave Grohl Age
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 Respect
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.' -Dave Grohl Famous
No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold. -Dave Grohl Computers
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. -Dave Grohl Funny
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. -Dave Grohl Family
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. -Dave Grohl Good
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock. -Dave Grohl Computers
I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really. -Dave Grohl Space
There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more. -Dave Grohl Wedding
I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO. -Dave Grohl Dad
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. -Dave Grohl Happiness
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. -Dave Grohl Teacher
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. -Dave Grohl Beauty
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 Poetry
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer! -Dave Grohl Learning
