Travis Barker Quotes
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Playing my drums is therapy.
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Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.
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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.
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I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
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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'm obsessed with my children.
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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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When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.
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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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In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
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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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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 need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
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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 try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.
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I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.
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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`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.
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I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
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Enema of the State song is kind of like a tattoo, like a moment in time, but it aged well. It's not like one that you're looking at like, "Aw, God, I gotta get that s**t removed." It's something we're proud of.
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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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I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.
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There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.