Quotes by Travis Barker

About Travis Barker:

Travis Landon Barker is an American musician and producer, most noted as the drummer for the American rock band Blink-182. Barker has also performed as a frequent collaborator with hip-hop artists, and with the alternative rock band +44, the rap rock group the Transplants, and the alternative rock band Box Car Racer. He was a frequent collaborator with the late DJ AM, and together they formed TRV$DJAM.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Travis Barker

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

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

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

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

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

I run every day now. I never ran before.

Travis Barker

I'm obsessed with my children.

Travis Barker

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

Travis Barker

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

Travis Barker

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

Travis Barker

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

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

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

Travis Barker

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.

Travis Barker

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

Author Bio

  • NameTravis Barker
  • DescriptionAmerican drummer and music producer
  • BornNovember 14, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDrummer; Composer; Musician