Travis Barker Quotes
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
Quotes to Explore
-
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
-
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
-
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
-
I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
-
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
-
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
-
You can't live your life through your children.
-
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
-
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
-
Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
-
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
-
I have a darker imagination than most people.
-
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
-
In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
-
I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
-
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
-
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
-
Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
-
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
-
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
-
I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.
-
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
-
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
