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The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
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.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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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.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
A lot of guys like to fantasize about having sex with 2 girls at the same time... I like to fantasize about having sex with the same girl twice, thank you.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
I run every day now. I never ran before.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
Travis Barker Blink-182