Dave Grohl Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• If 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 Grohl

  Song, Play, Devil

• That’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 Grohl

  Song, People, Different

  "Twenty years after In Utero, Nirvana's importance hasn't diminished" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

• What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Guy, Trying

  "'Give the Drummer Some'". www.fooarchive.com. 1995.

• I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Sweet, Spring

• I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Fighter, Foo Fighters

• What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Inspirational, Song, Missing

• There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Opportunity, Night

• Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Emotional, Impact

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Names

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

• It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, People, Important

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Intention

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

• There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Twenty years after In Utero, Nirvana's importance hasn't diminished" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

• To 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 Grohl

  Song, Rocks, People

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

• You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Heart, Three

• The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Real, Long

• For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Song, Rocks

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

• At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Book, Writing

• When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Journey, Order

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Morning, Teenager

• Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Records

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

• What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Rocks, Loud

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

• It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Play, Band

• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Guitar, Practice

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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