Tommy Lee Quotes

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Tommy Lee

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 3, 1962

I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.

Tommy Lee

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

Tommy Lee

I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

Tommy Lee

The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.

Tommy Lee

There are things you do that just come natural, and sometimes those are amazingly in synch, and sometimes they're horribly out of synch, and you're like, 'Ooo! That wasn't very good tonight.' Most of the time, it's just on.

Tommy Lee

I don't know how much you know about me, but I kind of have my fingers in a lot of different pies.

Tommy Lee

There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

Tommy Lee

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

Tommy Lee

It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.

Tommy Lee

I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid.

Tommy Lee

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

Tommy Lee

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

Tommy Lee

I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.

Tommy Lee

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

Tommy Lee

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.

Tommy Lee

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

Tommy Lee

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

Tommy Lee

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

Tommy Lee

I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

Tommy Lee

I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

Tommy Lee