The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
DAVE GROHLThe most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
DAVE GROHLIf there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
DAVE GROHLI was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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 GROHLYour personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHLThe human element of making music is what’s most important.
DAVE GROHLIf you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
DAVE GROHLWhen you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
DAVE GROHLBe someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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 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 GROHLThere’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
DAVE GROHLWhat’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’
DAVE GROHLHow come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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 GROHLNo one is you, and that is your power.
DAVE GROHL