Friday, March 8, 2013

Travis Barker Quotes



"Tom and Mark have all the small things, I have all the big things".

"My favorite is Lucky Charms"

"The other albums were good but they were a bit repetitive like I would get mixed up like when I had to learn them I had to learn them in a couple of hours when I was filling in like six of the songs sounded exactly alike. This one I don't think will have that problem, there's a lot of variety on there like uh a lot more songs like well written songs you know?" -

"Ever since I was a kid I wanted to like play drums professionally, like I was kinda pushed on it by my mom, my mom made me play so it was kinda like my dream but I wanted to be a professionally skater but I kept hurting myself. It got to the point were I could function anymore like if I kept on skateboarding uh this is diffenitly what I want to do and hopefully it'll keep going on from here you know?"

"Good things come to he who waits 'cause she laid me!"

"Everything is beautiful in this band"

"Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you."

"I'm the guy on tour who will do his own thing."

"I'm easily irritated"

"She was super horny"


"I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different"


"Misery is flying in an airplane"


"Well, most of the shows we play are the Warped tour, but in our free time, pretty much everyone skateboards"


"I've never made it a point to be different from everyone else"


"Seeing the Police and not being able to be the drummer"


"I think they're super funny, but you would never hear me talking like them"


"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."


"I something goes wrong, you should be compensated."


"In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men`s` and women`s` choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it."


"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."


"My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school."


"I practice every day, I warm up before I play."


"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."


"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."


"We didn`t hold ourselves to a standard that said we needed a certain type of song because that`s the type we had on the last album."


"But there`s actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.


"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."


"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."


"I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn`t going to be able to walk soon, you know?I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn`t going to happen."


"I was in a band called Hooker for a while."


"I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy."


"I`m super serious about that stuff. I mean, it`s rare that I sit down at a drum set when I`m not touring, because we tour so much."


"I was a kid, and I wasn`t even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good."


"I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There`s so many. I like everything."


"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."


"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."


"In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally."


"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."


"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."


"We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs."


"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years."


"On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy."


"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."


"And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school."


"Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too."


"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."


"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."


"I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good."

"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
"We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks."
"We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It`s not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened."
"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I`ve got a four piece kit."
"A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don`t know what they`re doing."

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