Taylor Hawkins Quotes
I don't really know how to play drums, so I play them wrong. But the pro guys, they never sweat. You know if someone's gone to music school, because they don't sweat when they play drums if they have.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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I want to play more festivals.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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You cannot play naive if you're not.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
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I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.
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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.
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If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.
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I don't really know how to play drums, so I play them wrong. But the pro guys, they never sweat. You know if someone's gone to music school, because they don't sweat when they play drums if they have.
