109 Inspiring Quotes by Dave Grohl on life & Music which will inspire you in your life

Dave Grohl Quotes: Dave Grohl also known as David Eric Grohl is a popular American musician, songwriter, and record producer. There are a lot of people out there for whom he is an inspiration in their life. He is the founder of Foo Fighters, for whom he is the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter.

Here we are not going to talk about his whole life, because we are here to talk about his popular quotes with images. So why do time pass, let's explore all the famous quotes of Dave Grohl below.

 “What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?” ~Dave Grohl

 “No one is you, and that is your power.” ~Dave Grohl  

 “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 

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

 “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 

 “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.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “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 

 “Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].” ~Dave Grohl 

 “The human element of making music is what's most important.” ~Dave Grohl  

 “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 

 “It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “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”

 “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.” ~Dave Grohl  
"If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun." ~Dave Grohl 

"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 

 “I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.” ~Dave Grohl  

 “Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “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 

 “We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.” ~Dave Grohl  

 “Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.” ~Dave Grohl

  “In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “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 

 “The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?” ~Dave Grohl 

 “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.” ~Dave Grohl

 “All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.” ~Dave Grohl  
 “If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I have never been one to collect “stuff,” I do collect moments.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I was a bit of a misfit, longing to feel understood, waiting for someone to accept the real me.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “Trust me, the sweet sting of a love refused is powerful enough to send any scribe scrambling for pen and paper.” ~Dave Grohl

“You cannot predict a person's sudden passing, but there are certain people in life that you prepare yourself to lose, for whatever reason. You foolishly try to protect yourself by building a wall around your heart as a sort of preemptive defense mechanism so that when you get that call, you are prepared somehow. Like being emotionally vaccinated, you have already built up an immunity to their inevitable passing.
But this never works.” ~Dave Grohl

 “That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.” ~Dave Grohl  
 “After all, you are only as happy as your unhappiest child.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Sometimes, you can't save someone from themselves.” ~Dave Grohl

 “My head and my heart seem to play this cruel trick on me, deceiving me with the false illusion of youth by greeting the world every day through the idealistic, mischievous eyes of a rebellious child finding happiness and appreciation in the most basic, simple things.” ~Dave Grohl

“I felt ashamed at times that I could not feel, but eventually I accepted that there is no right or wrong way to grieve. There is no textbook no manual to refer to when in need of emotional guidance. It is a process that cannot be controlled, and you are hopelessly at the mercy of its grip, so you must surrender to it when it rears its ugly head, no matter the fear. Over the years, I have come to terms with this. To this day I am often overcome with that same profound sadness that sent me to the floor the first time I was told Kurt had died.” ~Dave Grohl

“Tearing through the room like an F5 tornado of hyperactive joy was Taylor Hawkins, my brother from another mother, my best friend, a man for whom I would take a bullet. Upon first meeting, our bond was immediate, and we grew closer with every day, every song, every note that we ever played together. I am not afraid to say that our chance meeting was a kind of love at first sight, igniting a musical “twin flame” that still burns to this day. Together, we have become an unstoppable duo, onstage and off, in pursuit of any and all adventure we can find. We are absolutely meant to be, and I am grateful that we found each other in this lifetime.” ~Dave Grohl

“And there is no love like a mother’s love. It is life’s greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I love my children as I was loved as a child, and I pray that they will do the same when their time comes. Some cycles are meant to be broken. Some are meant to be reinforced.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I was born to let my freak flag fly and celebrate all of life's beautiful eccentricities.” ~Dave Grohl

“You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.” ~Dave Grohl

 “To me, that is beauty. Not the gleam of prefabricated perfection, but the road-worn beauty of individuality, time, and wisdom.” ~Dave Grohl

 “But with friends, you design your own relationship, which in turn designs your grief, which can be felt even deeper when they are gone. Those can be roots that are much harder to pull.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.” ~Dave Grohl

 “BECAUSE EVERY DAY IS STILL A BLANK PAGE, WAITING TO WRITE ITSELF.” ~Dave Grohl

“The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.” ~Dave Grohl

If only he could have seen the joy that his music brought to the world, maybe he could have found his own. My life was forever changed by Kurt, something I never had the chance to say while he was still with us, and not thanking him for that is a regret I will have to live with until we are somehow reunited. Not a day goes by when I don't think of our time together, and when we meet in my dreams there's always a feeling of happiness and calm, almost as if he's just been hiding, waiting to return.” ~Dave Grohl

 “For, in a world full of Barbies, every girl needs a Joan Jett” ~Dave Grohl

 “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

 “Life is just too damn short to let someone else’s opinion steer the wheel,”  “I had no idea what I was doing and I faked it and it worked”  “Heavy Metal would not exist without Led Zeppelin, and if it did, it would suck.” ~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.” ~Dave Grohl

Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” ~Dave Grohl  It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.” ~Dave Grohl  

 “Defina mucho… —dije, sabiendo que mi consumo de cafeína era suficiente para que Juan Valdez cogiera a su burro y saliera corriendo hacia las colinas de Colombia.” ~Dave Grohl

 “If fatherhood has taught me anything, it’s that I couldn’t pick a Hall of Fame athlete out of a lineup if my life depended on it, though to be honest, I actually relish being the one dude at the party who is always more interested in the Super Bowl halftime show than the game itself.” ~Dave Grohl

  “Washington, DC, was not necessarily a heroin town Seattle, on the other hand, was a heroin capital.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Inspired by Jonathan Kaplan’s 1979 film Over the Edge, starring Matt Dillon, the “Teen Spirit” video was a dark portrait of youthful rebellion, shot with actual fans from a show that we’d played the night before at the Roxy in Hollywood.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Though I have never been one to collect “stuff,” I do collect moments. So, in that respect, my life flashes before my eyes and through my ears every single day.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Sometimes I forget that I’ve aged.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I have always measured my life in musical increments rather than months or years. My mind faithfully relies on songs, albums, and bands to remember a particular time and place.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Y el resultado suele ser bueno, porque es real y duele muchísimo.” ~Dave Grohl

 “¿O tal vez vendí mi alma por el rock and roll?”

 “Lo que piensas, lo serás. Lo que sientas, lo atraerás. Lo que imaginas, lo crearás.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Hacía mucho tiempo que había dejado de intentar entender el destino, pero las coincidencias parecían ser mi especialidad.” ~Dave Grohl

 “One problem was that we were now attracting the same people who used to kick our asses in high school for being different, who called us “faggots” and “queers” for the clothes we wore and the music we listened to. Our fanbase was changing to include macho monster-truck homophobes and meathead jocks whose worlds revolved around beer and football” ~Dave Grohl

 “So, when you hear that parade coming down the street, spreading joy and love with every note, don’t just listen; join in the march. You never know where it may lead you.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “It seems that everywhere I turn there is a reminder to be found, and I have come to a place where they no longer break my heart; they make me smile.” ~Dave Grohl

 “That I would celebrate the ensuing years by embracing the toll they’d take on me.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I knew deep down that nothing would ever compare to what Nirvana had gifted to the world. That dort of thing only happens once in a lifetime.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Joan was not only an actual human being but a most important one. A FEMINIST ICON WHO PROVED TO THE WORLD THAT WOMEN CAN ROCK EVEN HARDER THAN MEN. An innovator, an architect, a punk rock pioneer so powerful, she inspired generations of young women to pick up guitars and do the same.” ~Dave Grohl

 “To me, it is god. A divine mystery in whose power I will forever hold an unconditional trust. And it is moments like these that cement my faith. So, when you hear that parade coming down the street, spreading joy and love with every note, don’t just listen; join in the march. You never know where it may lead you.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I could always tell when a chorus was coming by watching Kurt’s dirty Converse sneaker as it moved closer and closer to the distortion pedal, and just before he stomped on the button, I would blast into a single-stroke snare roll with all of my might, like a fuse burning fast into the heart of a bomb, signaling the change. The subsequent eruption would often send chills up my neck, as the undeniable power of our collective sound was becoming almost too big for that tiny little space.” ~Dave Grohl

 “YOU PICK YOURSELF UP OFF THE GROUND. YOU WALK HOME. THE SHOW MUST GO ON.” ~Dave Grohl

 “When I was seventeen years old, music had become my counselor when I needed guidance, my friend when I felt alone, my father when I needed love, my preacher when I needed hope, and my partner when I needed to belong.” ~Dave Grohl

 “None of my other friends actually hung out with their parents, especially not at a fucking jazz club in downtown DC, so it made me think she was intrinsically cool and this was another way of strengthening our bond.” ~Dave Grohl

 “We never had much, but we always had enough.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Punk rock became my professor in a school with no rules, only teaching the lesson that you need no lessons and that every person has a voice to be heard, no matter the sound.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Courage is a defining factor in the life of any artist. The courage to bare your innermost feelings, to reveal your true voice, or to stand in front of an audience and lay it out there for the world to see. The emotional vulnerability that is often necessary to summon a great song can also work against you when sharing your song for the world to hear. This is the paralyzing conflict of any sensitive artist. A feeling I’ve experienced with every lyric I’ve sung to someone other than myself. Will they like it? Am I good enough? It is the courage to be yourself that bridges those opposing emotions, and when it does, magic can happen.” ~Dave Grohl

 “To really see America, you need to drive it mile by mile. Because you not only begin to grasp the immensity of this beautiful country, you see the climate and geography change with every state line. These are indeed things that cannot be learned from an old school book under the cold classroom lights. They must be seen, heard, and felt in person to be truly appreciated.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Define a lot of coffee . . . ,” I said, knowing that my caffeine consumption would probably make Juan Valdez pack up his donkey and run for the hills of Colombia. I was almost embarrassed to admit the amount of coffee I would drink in one day, for fear that he would 5150 me and send me off in a straitjacket to the nearest Caffeine Anonymous meeting. I had recently come to terms with this addiction, realizing that maybe five pots of coffee a day was slightly overdoing it, but I hadn’t accepted the dire consequences until now. Unfortunately, I’m THAT guy. Give me one, I want ten. There is a reason why I still to this day have never done cocaine, because deep down I know that if I did coke the same way I drink coffee, I’d be sucking dicks at the bus stop every morning for an eight ball.” ~Dave Grohl

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” ~Dave Grohl

“there’s nothing like hearing your five-year-old daughter sing “Rehab” word for word while wearing Yo Gabba Gabba! pajamas).” ~Dave Grohl

 “This band, born from the heartbreak and tragedy of our broken past, was a celebration of love, and life, and the dedication to finding happiness in every next day.” ~Dave Grohl

“He looked at me in frustration and very politely informed me, "If I let go of your foot, it will fall back out of the socket!" Without hesitation, and in a moment of of pure, stubborn will, I loudly exclaimed, "Well then, you're coming up on stage with me, motherfucker!”

 “I was learning about languages and cultures I never would have experienced in school. The physicality of actually being in these places deepened my understanding of the world as a community, which is much smaller than most imagine.” ~Dave Grohl

 “At one point, I asked an official-looking White House employee if there was any catering or a craft service table for the performers, as I was fucking starving for lunch. He offered to go check for me, asking if I had any preferences, but I am quite literally the least picky eater on earth (ask anyone I know), so I just said, “Whatever!” After a few minutes, he returned with some SunChips and a sandwich on a plate that had been made in the kitchen downstairs, and I thanked him profusely. What a nice guy! I thought. I later found out he was the admiral of the Coast Guard.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Once you find that inspiration, you shouldn't be afraid to follow it. Because anything is possible.” ~Dave Grohl

 “When it was finished, I was free to roam around the White House, admiring the historic portraits and browsing through books in the small library downstairs. My favorite find? A complete anthology of Bob Dylan lyrics. I’m not sure how much time it spent off the shelf, but knowing it was there gave me a little hope for the future.” ~Dave Grohl

 “With shiny Doc Marten boots, black bondage pants, an Anti-Pasti T-shirt, and a shaved head, she was a terrifying yet glorious vision of rebellion. Long gone were the tennis shorts and sneakers from last summer; Tracey had transformed into something I had seen only on prime-time TV shows like CHiPs or Quincy.” ~Dave Grohl  

 “Pantera.” ~Dave Grohl

 “It’s not always the kid that fails the school. Sometimes it’s the school that fails the kid.” ~Dave Grohl

 “It was actually happening. I was watching MYSELF on MTV. Not Michael Jackson or the Cars. Not Madonna or Bruce Springsteen. No. It was Krist, Kurt, and me, playing a song we wrote in a fucking barn. Dalí’s melted clocks had nothing on this most surreal moment.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Those jagged record sleeves and distorted garage recordings that leapt out of Tracy's speakers had forced open a window to my soul, and I had finally experienced a connection that made me feel understood. Having always felt slightly removed from the norm, I never had anywhere or anyone to turn to for understanding and reassurance among my peers.” ~Dave Grohl

 “What you think, you become, What you feel, you attract, What you imagine, you create.” ~Dave Grohl

 “THERE WERE CERTAIN THINGS IN MY LIFE THAT I RELIED ON UNCONDITIONALLY AND IN WHICH I HAD UNWAVERING FAITH—THE LOVE OF MY MOTHER, MY LOVE FOR HER, AND THE LOVE THAT FILLED MY HEART WHEN I PLAYED MUSIC.” ~Dave Grohl

 “My heart was filled with pride. Not just pride in Violet’s musical ability, but pride in her courage. Courage is a defining factor in the life of any artist. The courage to bear your innermost feelings, to reveal your true voice, or to stand in front of an audience and lay it all out there for the world to see. The emotional vulnerability that’s often necessary to summon a great song can also work against you when you’re sharing your song for the world to hear. This is the paralyzing conflict of any sensitive artist. A feeling I’ve experienced with every lyric I’ve sung to someone other than myself. Will they like it? Am I good enough? It is the courage to be yourself that bridges those opposing emotions, and when it does, magic can happen.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Not that I was necessarily ready to put a down a deposit on a house in the Hamptons just yet, but I had finally graduated from generic cigarettes to actual Marlboros, and that made me feel like a fucking king.” ~Dave Grohl

 “And each instrument ages entirely differently.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Lo único que hay que hacer es dejar que el universo se encargue, y yo se lo agradezco.” ~Dave Grohl

 “(Upon arrival, Taylor broke into his best Bruce Springsteen impression, serenading me with the Boss’s classic anthem of the same name. The only thing funnier was the time he played the theme from Cheers on a piano in the middle of a crowded Costco.)” ~Dave Grohl

 “disfruto siendo el único tío de la fiesta que está más interesado en el espectáculo del descanso de la Super Bowl que en el partido.” ~Dave Grohl

 “I was almost embarrassed to admit the amount of coffee I would drink in one day, for fear that he would 5150 me and send me off in a straitjacket to the nearest Caffeine Anonymous meeting.” ~Dave Grohl

 “PORQUE, EN UN MUNDO LLENO DE BARBIES, TODAS LAS NIÑAS NECESITAN A UNA JOAN JETT.” ~Dave Grohl 

 “Hearing a time-delayed full-throated sing-along ricocheting from the farthest rafters of a football stadium is an out-of-body sensation, one that becomes oddly addictive over time, echoing in a chorus of sublime connectivity. The open air, hitting you in gusts that give your hair a perfect Beyoncé blowout while you inhale the aroma of sweat and beer that sometimes rises from the crowd in a foglike condensation. The roar of fireworks above your head as you take your final bow and sprint to the room-temperature pepperoni pizza waiting in your dressing room. Believe me, it is all that it’s cracked up to be and more. I never fully embraced stadium rock until I experienced it from the lip of the stage, and to this day I have never taken a single moment of it for granted. It is an otherworldly experience, one that can be described in just two words: fucking awesome.” ~Dave Grohl

 “But beyond any biological information, there is love. Something that defies all science and reason. And that I am most fortunate to have been given. It maybe the most defining factor in anyone’s life. Surely an artist greatest muse. And there is no love like a mother’s love. It is life’s greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who has given us life. For without them, there would be no music.” ~Dave Grohl

Precious Lord, take my hand Lead me on, let me stand I am tired, I am weak, I am worn Through the storm, through the night Lead me on to the light Take my hand, precious Lord Lead me home.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Some people’s reminiscence is triggered by taste, some people’s by sight or smell. Mine is triggered by sound, playing like an unfinished mixtape waiting to be sent.” ~Dave Groh

 “Todos estamos en deuda con las mujeres que nos dieron la vida. Sin ellas, no habría música.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Though Kurt and Jimmy were not “family,” I invited them to be, and that invitation can sometimes be even more intimate than the connection to any blood relative. There was no biological obligation here; we were bonded for other reasons: our parallel spirits, our love of music, and our mutual appreciation. You cannot choose family, and when you lose family, there is a biological imperative that implies a built-in type of mourning. But with friends, you design your own relationship, which in turn designs your grief, which can be felt even deeper when they are gone. THOSE CAN BE ROOTS THAT ARE MUCH HARDER TO PULL.” ~Dave Grohl

 “Si hubiera podido ver la alegría que su música le daba al mundo, tal vez habría podido encontrar la suya.” ~Dave Grohl