When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. Dave Grohl More Quotes by Dave Grohl More Quotes From Dave Grohl Be someone's light when they are hopeless. Dave Grohl hopeless light You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band. Dave Grohl band years thinking What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs. Dave Grohl loud rocks song 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 names writing song 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. Dave Grohl artist people thinking Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got. Dave Grohl wow wake-up I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves. Dave Grohl should people thinking I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization. Dave Grohl boss yelling organization There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll. Dave Grohl rocks band kids 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!' Dave Grohl wall looks thinking I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. Dave Grohl imagine tragedy done There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special. Dave Grohl knowing real special It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to. Dave Grohl maturity parent kids Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life. Dave Grohl hero beautiful past Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music. Dave Grohl six coffee people From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. Dave Grohl rocks generations important If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. Dave Grohl musician ifs All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. Dave Grohl seattle suitcases afterlife There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too. Dave Grohl great-music hangover said I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better. Dave Grohl guitar feel-better play
