Dave Grohl Quotes

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I make the kind of music I like.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.