The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
DAVE GROHLThe whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
DAVE GROHLAll I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
DAVE GROHLThere’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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 GROHLYou will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
DAVE GROHLThere’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
DAVE GROHLYour personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHLThere’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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 GROHLI’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.
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 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 GROHLAs 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 GROHLI was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
DAVE GROHLIn this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
DAVE GROHLI listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
DAVE GROHL