You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them. Dave Grohl More Quotes by Dave Grohl More Quotes From Dave Grohl I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture. Dave Grohl ikea mean school The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music. Dave Grohl real song long If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward. Dave Grohl musician trying people With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album. Dave Grohl records albums shapes It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can. Dave Grohl important song people 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. Dave Grohl lucky half years I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. Dave Grohl caves crazy men A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place. Dave Grohl safe perfection people From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years. Dave Grohl over-it september years 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. Dave Grohl legends musician 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. Dave Grohl journey song order The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically. Dave Grohl slacker generations whole 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. Dave Grohl careers artist people If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian. Dave Grohl italian light trying One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really. Dave Grohl great-things body 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man! Dave Grohl monsters men ideas Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But 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 - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life. Dave Grohl gone-away love-of-my-life feelings There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends. Dave Grohl passion crazy ambition 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. Dave Grohl fighter grandparent people The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown. Dave Grohl deaf musician wife
