Taylor Hawkins Quotes

• I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

  Taylor Hawkins

  Perfect, Sound, Machines

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• 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

  School, Sweat, Play

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• I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

  Taylor Hawkins

  Sound, Body, Stuff

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• 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

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

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• 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

  Hate, Rocks, Hands

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• 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

  Summer, Bees, Periods

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