Travis Barker famous quotes

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
-- Travis Barker

#Thinking #Rocks #People

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.
-- Travis Barker

#People #Different #Looks

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Mom #Dream #School

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

#People #Speak #Ask Me

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Poppies #Littles #Punk

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
-- Travis Barker

#Thank You #Thanksgiving #Littles

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

#Teacher #Play #Tilt

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Skateboarding #Half #Body

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Play #Rocks #Style

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
-- Travis Barker

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.
-- Travis Barker

#Friday #Monday #Kids

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
-- Travis Barker

#Practice #Play #Pads

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
-- Travis Barker

#Bills

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
-- Travis Barker

#Beach #Latin #Band

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
-- Travis Barker

#School #Years #Band

I looked Death right in the face.
-- Travis Barker

#Faces

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
-- Travis Barker

#Band

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
-- Travis Barker

#Worry #Bigs #Small Things

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.
-- Travis Barker

#Gratitude #Blessed #Grateful

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Song #Band #Use

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
-- Travis Barker

#Book #Serious #Stills

On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.
-- Travis Barker

#Home #Busy #Used

I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.
-- Travis Barker

#Real #Flashy

My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.
-- Travis Barker

#School #High School #Stills

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.
-- Travis Barker

#Care #Take Care

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Used #Bummed Out

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself,
-- Travis Barker

#Limits #Pushing #Want

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Jobs #Fall #Play

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
-- Travis Barker

#Children #Kids #Nannies

I'm obsessed with my children.
-- Travis Barker

#Children #My Children #Obsessed

I run every day now. I never ran before.
-- Travis Barker

#Running #Ran

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Responsibility #Home #Opposites

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

#Children #Kids #Play

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
-- Travis Barker

#Practice #Play

I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.
-- Travis Barker

#Kids #Home #Night

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Europe #Light #Half

Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.
-- Travis Barker

#Morning #Eggs #Healthy

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Boys #Play #Listening

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
-- Travis Barker

#Periods #Form #Transportation

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
-- Travis Barker

#Video #Spots #Youtube

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
-- Travis Barker

#Needs #Protein #Changed

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
-- Travis Barker

#Play #Orange #Guy

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
-- Travis Barker

#Suicide #Machines #Detroit

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Mean #Journey #Stuff

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Eye #Numbers #Way

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
-- Travis Barker

#Men #Piano #Junior High

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
-- Travis Barker

#Swim #Wells

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
-- Travis Barker

#Mom #Redneck #Different

Playing my drums is therapy.
-- Travis Barker

#Therapy

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
-- Travis Barker

#Song #Gigs #Months

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Grateful #Alive #Crash

I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning.
-- Travis Barker

#Morning #Water #Juice

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Trying #Breakfast #Firsts

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.
-- Travis Barker

#Trying #Legs #Able

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
-- Travis Barker

#Rocks #Acoustics #Band