Dave Grohl Quotes

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

The way I do that is to keep coming up with good songs and when I do a concert, I make sure I give a good performance. It's not rocket science.

I'm in a band, I sing live.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room so badly. Like go up on stage and thrash myself around, go jump into the crowd. You can effing swear, get drunk on stage and do whatever you want basically.

I'd say recording and playing on stage are two completely different things. Being up in front of all people is like jumping off a cliff into icy water. The recording process is a totally different energy.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.