top of page

"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Learning quotes

"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."

"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"Always we learn things and then we forget them."

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."

"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Tell the others right away, 'No, I don't want to watch TV! I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!"

"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."
Explore more quotes by 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."


"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."


"We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks."


"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."
bottom of page