At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
DAVE GROHLAt school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
DAVE GROHLDon’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 GROHLTo me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
DAVE GROHLWhen I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
DAVE GROHLI 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 GROHLNothing’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 GROHLThat’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
DAVE GROHLIt’s funny, there aren’t too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There’s a few – the really brilliant ones.
DAVE GROHLI 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 GROHLAll I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
DAVE GROHLThe human element of making music is what’s most important.
DAVE GROHLHow come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
DAVE GROHLWhen you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
DAVE GROHLWhen something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
DAVE GROHLI’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 GROHLI 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.
DAVE GROHL