Dave Grohl
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.Collection: Song
You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.Collection: Hate
Be someone's light when they are hopeless.Collection: Light
I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.Collection: Thinking
Always have the highest bar for yourself.Collection: Bars
Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'Collection: Wall
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.Collection: Forever
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.Collection: Hero
How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.Collection: Humble
Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.Collection: Bars
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.Collection: Real
The human element of making music is what's most important.Collection: Important
There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.Collection: Things In Life
As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Sexy
One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.Collection: Body
Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'Collection: Queens
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.Collection: Technology
CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.Collection: New York
Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.Collection: Crime
We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.Collection: Home
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.Collection: Song
When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.Collection: Albums
It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"Collection: Nice
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.Collection: Tape
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.Collection: Beautiful
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.Collection: Stars
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.Collection: Song
My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.Collection: Guitar
I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.Collection: Romance
When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.Collection: Song
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.Collection: Inspirational
Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.Collection: Playing Music
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.Collection: Albums
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.Collection: Thinking
When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.Collection: Song
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.Collection: People
My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.Collection: Artist
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.Collection: Growing Up
Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.Collection: Hero
I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenagerCollection: Teenager
A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.Collection: Clouds
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.Collection: Real
I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.Collection: Fashion
A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."Collection: School
A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.Collection: Wall
I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.Collection: Stars