Travis Barker Quotes

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

I love rock n' rollers.

What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.