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 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. - Dave Grohl 6 Share Now -
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. - Dave Grohl 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. - Dave Grohl 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
