Travis Barker Quotes
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With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.
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I looked Death right in the face.
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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
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I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.
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I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.
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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
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A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
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I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
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Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
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I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
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I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.
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I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
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I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
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I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
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I run every day now. I never ran before.
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
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My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.
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