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I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
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'Masturbation is one of the safest ways to explore your own sexuality.'
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I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.
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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.
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Perez Hilton: Are you drunk right now?Grohl: No, I gotta play.Perez: Britney Spears has been getting wasted all the time, hasn't stopped her.Grohl: Yeah, but she doesn't have to sing live.
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What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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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.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.
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The late '60s and the '70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the world and the Neve boards were considered like the Cadillacs of recording consoles. They're these really big, behemoth-looking recording desks; they kind of look like they're from the Enterprise in Star Trek or something like that. They're like a grayish color, sort of like an old Army tank with lots of knobs, and to any studio geek or gear enthusiast it's like the coolest toy in the world.
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I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
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I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.
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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.
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I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.
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I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.
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It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.
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I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
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I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
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I think the producers or whoever's doing the show are tripping so hard. They must be on acid. They live in this, like, weird grass mound and there's this 'sun' in the sky with this little baby's face that's just, like, bleaaargh-aarghagh. It's just so totally insane. It's such an acid thing, man. For kids!
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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.
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Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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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.