"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 Quotes #Play Quotes #Tilt Quotes

“It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'”
“I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.”
“I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.”
“I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.”
“Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.”

Source : Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub
“If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.”
“I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.”
“Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.”

Source : "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2004.

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