Quotes by Taylor Hawkins - Page 1

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Vacation
Work Fun More
Copy Quote
Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Funny
Trouble
Laugh
Copy Quote
I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Dave
Collins
Phil
Phil Collins
Copy Quote
In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Drummer
Fighters
Copy Quote
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Machines
Perfect
Sound
Drum
Copy Quote
I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Body
Sound
Stuff
Copy Quote
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Drum
Drummers
Copy Quote
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Bees
Periods
Summer
Copy Quote
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Abba
Bee Gees
Disco
Late
Summer
Bee
Period
Recording
Copy Quote
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Guitar Solos
Guitar Look Me
Solos
Copy Quote
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Dna
October
Structure
Tree
Unforgettable
Copy Quote
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Rock Music
Tough
Youth
Anymore
Main
Rock
Copy Quote
I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Mercury
Okay
Rock And Roll
Wilson
Copy Quote
I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Debut
Sound
Album
Record
Pepper
Raw
Supposed
Copy Quote
When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Changed
Aspirations
Biggest
Drum
Drum Set
Fastest
Loudest
Obviously
Copy Quote
I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Lucky
Tough
Business Music Myself
Consider
Drums
Incredibly
So Much Fun
Worked
Copy Quote
The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Grew
Individual
Records
Roger
Voice
Collins
Me Style Feel
Drummers
Neil
Phil
Phil Collins
Taylor
Copy Quote
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.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Play
School
Sweat
Copy Quote
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Sat
Week
Allowed
Drums
Instead
Copy Quote
I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Chevy
Free Time
Time Music Myself
Breaks
Cover
Drums
In The Past
Metal
Copy Quote
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Gnarly
Ideas
Lighting
No Idea
Synergy
Talking
Thinking
Van Halen
Candles
Halen
Tour
Van
Copy Quote
I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Addiction
High School
Jane
Roger
Ten
Guys
Perkins
Taylor
Copy Quote
The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Drummer
Musicianship
Hawkins
Skill
Taylor
The One Thing
Copy Quote
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Drummer
Hindsight
If I Could
Self
Fastest
Loudest
Noticed
Relay
Copy Quote
I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Ambition
Fulfilled
Stadiums
Fighters
Copy Quote
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Hands
Hate
Rock Music
Rocks
Window
Music Hate Me
Auto
Drums
Grid
No Interest
Perfectly
Studio
Throw
Tune
Vocals
Copy Quote
Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Crap
Jam
Midwest
Pearl Jam
Radio
Rock Music
Anymore
Music Me Will
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Fan
Dead
Music Happens Me
Hear
Market
Rock
Pearl
While
Copy Quote
I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
New Ideas
Outlets
Fighters
Positive Thing
Copy Quote
I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.
Taylor Hawkins / Musician
Crimson
Eagles
Police
Roots
Sophistication
Technique
Harmonies
Rhythmically
Copy Quote

Related Musician Authors

Zz Ward
Musician
Monday, Jun 02, 1986
Zuoxiao Zuzhou
Musician
Wednesday, Mar 04, 1970
Zoot Sims
Musician
Thursday, Oct 29, 1925
Saturday, Mar 23, 1985
Zomby
Musician
Ziggy Marley
Musician
Thursday, Oct 17, 1968
Zakk Wylde
Musician
Saturday, Jan 14, 1967
Zacky Vengeance
Musician
Friday, Dec 11, 1981
Zack De La Rocha
Musician
Monday, Jan 12, 1970
Zac Hanson
Musician
Tuesday, Oct 22, 1985
Zac Farro
Musician
Monday, Jun 04, 1990
Yuki
Musician
Thursday, Feb 17, 1972
Youth Lagoon
Musician
Saturday, Mar 18, 1989
Yoshiki
Musician
Saturday, Nov 20, 1965
Yann Tiersen
Musician
Tuesday, Jun 23, 1970
Willis Earl Beal
Musician

View All Musician Quotes

Top Authors

Pope John Paul Ii
Priest
Tuesday, May 18, 1920
Saturday, Apr 02, 2005
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Thomas Aquinas
Priest
Tuesday, Jan 28, 1225
Wednesday, Mar 07, 1274
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
Wednesday, May 05, 1813
Sunday, Nov 11, 1855
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Les Brown
Author
Saturday, Feb 17, 1945
Napoleon Hill
Author
Friday, Oct 26, 1883
Sunday, Nov 08, 1970
Zig Ziglar
Author
Saturday, Nov 06, 1926
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012
Stephen Covey
Author
Monday, Oct 24, 1932
Monday, Jul 16, 2012
Joe Biden
Vice President Of The United States
Friday, Nov 20, 1942
Aristotle
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Abraham Lincoln
16Th U.S. President
Sunday, Feb 12, 1809
Saturday, Apr 15, 1865
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Pope Francis
Thursday, Dec 17, 1936
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
Sunday, Oct 07, 1849

View All Authors

Taylor Hawkins Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Musician Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Musician Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page