Travis Barker Quotes
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
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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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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
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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.
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I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
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In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
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I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
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I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
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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 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.
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I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.
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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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Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
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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.
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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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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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Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.
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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.
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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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I run every day now. I never ran before.