King Tuff Quotes

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

My thing is to play as well as I can possibly can.

I'm always practising because I enjoy it.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Practice every time you get a chance.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

You only get better by playing.

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.

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.