Dave Grohl Quotes

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Music inspires me.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.