Dave Grohl Quotes

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.