Taylor Hawkins Quotes

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.