Travis Barker Quotes

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Travis Barker

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 14, 1975

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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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.

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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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A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

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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.

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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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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

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Playing my drums is therapy.

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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

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

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I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

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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.

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On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

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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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