Taylor Hawkins quotes

“I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.”
-- Taylor Hawkins

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.”
-- Taylor Hawkins

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“No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.”

“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”

“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”

“To fight, we must have oil for our machine.”

“You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 202), 1986.

“In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.”

“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”

Source : "Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing". Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. "Key Papers: Cybernetics". Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.

“Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.”

“I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.”

“I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.”