Nirvana Quotes
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I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.
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Once you fall in love... It's different.
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
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We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
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When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.
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When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
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I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.
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We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
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When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
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If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
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I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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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.
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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.
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I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.
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Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.
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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.
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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.
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My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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You create attention to attract attention.
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My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.