How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.
I’d like to imagine I won’t end up in Hell, but I think I’ve done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
If you’re trying to connect to people with music – it’s more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
If you play a Nickleback song backwards you’ll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you’ll hear Nickleback.
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.