Dave Grohl Quotes

I believe in rock and roll and heavy music in general.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I don't listen to a ton of rock music.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and rock get it across best for me.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you just have to listen to something heavy.

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

I like hard, aggressive music.

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.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.

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

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

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

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.