Taylor Hawkins quote: "I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself."

I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have o...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. ...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest dru...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever th...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a gr...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshu...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I us...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I ...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the ...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them per...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart C...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do m...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talki...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
TAYLOR HAWKINS

In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

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

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
TAYLOR HAWKINS

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
SALLY HAWKINS

The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.
COREY HAWKINS

If more can be encouraged to participate in marriage preparation, divorces will be reduced.
ALAN HAWKINS

Most parents are agreeable but some aren't because they don't have transportation or they have probl...
ALAN HAWKINS

We always try to do something fun on Fridays. We have snow cones or watermelon. We make it a little ...
ALAN HAWKINS

You don't have to pass these classes to go onto the next grade level.
ALAN HAWKINS

The goal is to try and help the kids maintain the skills they have learned or help build up their sk...
ALAN HAWKINS

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS

Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of ...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Jackass, jackass on the wall, where's the info on Hex Hall?
RACHEL HAWKINS

It just seems like overkill when you already have a dagger and I have superpowerful magic at my disp...
RACHEL HAWKINS

He probably would've raised an eyebrow in that annoying/hot way he had, and made a dirty joke about ...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked ou...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She ...
SCOTT HAWKINS

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
PAULA HAWKINS

Dad, she's just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yell...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake.'
Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was...
RACHEL HAWKINS

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.
TRIP HAWKINS

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in t...
TRIP HAWKINS

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
COREY HAWKINS

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I...
COLEMAN HAWKINS

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, some...
SALLY HAWKINS

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will...
JOHN HAWKINS

So hologram means--" I finally said.
"It means non-corporeal, yeah. Which sucks seeing as how t...
RACHEL HAWKINS

No. Don't distract me with your sexy talk.
RACHEL HAWKINS

The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was famil...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we&...
PAULA HAWKINS

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
JEFF HAWKINS

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. Th...
DAN HAWKINS

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies ...
TRIP HAWKINS

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
TRIP HAWKINS

Sophia Mercer," Elodie intoned, "we have come to induct you into our sisterhood. Say the five words ...
RACHEL HAWKINS

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work...
JEFF HAWKINS

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
JEFF HAWKINS

I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be ...
KAREN HAWKINS

But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away...
RACHEL HAWKINS

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave ...
PAULA HAWKINS

Cal's face swam into view. I couldn't hear him over the ringing in my ears. I'm pretty sure he mouth...
RACHEL HAWKINS

It occurred to me that my cheek was probably right over his tattoo. Without thinking, I lifted my fa...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Because of the lack of bodies, he turns to grave robbery. There are quite a few shocking moments in ...
BRIAN HAWKINS

The financial world has taken stock of Kmart and Sears and Sears Holdings Corporation. I'm sure this...
BRIAN HAWKINS

I think they like the Baraboo area and the drawing area of the Baraboo store. That's why Baraboo rea...
BRIAN HAWKINS

It's more of a family-focused shopping experience.
BRIAN HAWKINS

It's a busy time. There will be a lot of changes.
BRIAN HAWKINS

They don't get enough credit. They have unbelievable role players on that basketball team.
BILL HAWKINS

We want to play them there's not any question. This is what you play for, to get in this situation.
BILL HAWKINS

In aviation, China is using the lure of being the world's largest market for commercial aircraft to ...
BILL HAWKINS

It's not like they were two people who didn't know him.
BILL HAWKINS

A lot of people will be like, 'Man, I can't believe they're doing this song. They're gonna try to pu...
BILL HAWKINS

We are hurting for money, ...and we take care of your dogs and cats that are stray.
BILL HAWKINS

This is not just a problem of lost jobs. The transfer of technology, know-how and manufacturing is a...
BILL HAWKINS

Neither team panicked. They both played like championship-caliber teams all the way through. ... Eve...
BILL HAWKINS

My phone has been ringing off the hook, family and friends, you get calls from scouts from teams you...
BRENT HAWKINS

It depends on the team. If you're talking a 4-3 (front) team, they see me at end. A 3-4 team sees me...
BRENT HAWKINS

You never know. Arizona called me the other day, and I had no clue they even knew my name.
BRENT HAWKINS

I'm getting pretty excited. But it's hard to know what to think.
BRENT HAWKINS

I'm exhausted, but it goes with the territory. My agent says I'm out there making money so just keep...
BRENT HAWKINS

I worked really hard to get to this point, and it doesn't matter what level you play, football's the...
BRENT HAWKINS

We're excited about it. It's been kind of fun because we think we have a chance on both sides (girls...
BRENT HAWKINS

I had a real good feeling coming out of Jacksonville when I was down there. I'm not disappointed tha...
BRENT HAWKINS

I'm excited that we've got something for younger families.
BOB HAWKINS

This is just plush stuff.
BOB HAWKINS

Time is money for these people.
BOB HAWKINS

This facility is hands-down the best facility that's in Alaska. There's really no reason not to come...
BOB HAWKINS

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually chall...
RONNIE HAWKINS

I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wron...
PAULA HAWKINS

I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behin...
COREY HAWKINS

I wish we could go to the movies."
I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chanc...
RACHEL HAWKINS

As I told the guys, we still have a glimmer of hope. We just have to take them one game at a time. W...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

As I told the guys after the game, I think I've finally seen what I have been looking for. The guys ...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

We pulled it out and were able to get a victory. We played a little bit better than we did yesterday...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

We've still got a shot. It's a slim one. Like I told the guys before the game in the dressing room, ...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

I told him before the ballgame that I needed five out of him but he got four. And he told me before ...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

We were able to come in here and make the plays down the stretch. We pulled the ball game out and ma...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

As I told the guys, we still have a glimmer of hope. We just have to take them one game at a time. W...
CEDRIC HAWKINS

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, ...
RACHEL HAWKINS

There's an ancient Chinese saying that goes something like this. All you need is Hawk love.
DAN HAWKINS

Papa Joe (Paterno of Penn State) came over and said that was one of the best performances he's ever ...
CHRIS HAWKINS

Prediction by analogy -creativity- is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
JEFF HAWKINS

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through pract...
JEFF HAWKINS

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix i...
PAULA HAWKINS

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. T...
PAULA HAWKINS

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit ...
JOHN HAWKINS

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and th...
TRIP HAWKINS

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world...
JEFF HAWKINS

We remain firmly committed to the goal of allowing Texans to choose how they want to apply for servi...
ALBERT HAWKINS

We're not naive. This stuff can be manipulated too.
DAVID HAWKINS

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
COLEMAN HAWKINS

If we build coal plants with no carbon dioxide capture mechanism, there is no way we can prevent mas...
DAVID HAWKINS

Until they were apprehended, they were merely paper photographs to me. It's very difficult to have a...
JAYNE HAWKINS

We competed hard; we just couldn't keep them off the glass. That was the game in a nutshell.
STEVE HAWKINS

When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the c...
COREY HAWKINS

There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.
PAULA HAWKINS

Hopefully, we'll get some gigs soon. We do corporate dates. Private parties. Birthdays, weddings, an...
BARBARA HAWKINS

Our first concern is making sure Texans have access to their medications. Today's action will allow ...
ALBERT HAWKINS

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting t...
SALLY HAWKINS

He'll get 25, 26 or 27 points and you'd walk out swearing he got 12. He's not flashy, but he gets th...
STEVE HAWKINS

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on co...
TRIP HAWKINS

It just hurt. It's not what our idea of Fayetteville was at this time. We figured we had gone a whol...
AARON HAWKINS

We're here to bless the Lord; we're not here to cause problems. But it's kind of like they're taking...
AARON HAWKINS

You may not know what the qualifications of the physicians are. You may not be familiar with what th...
AARON HAWKINS

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into ot...
SALLY HAWKINS

It is too large, it is too in-your-face, it is too visible.
BARRY HAWKINS

I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play som...
SALLY HAWKINS

I heard the man and woman cry a warning as I frantically racked my brain for some sort of throat-rep...
RACHEL HAWKINS

Anne had a great start in the 500 free and she swam hard throughout the race.
BARBARA HAWKINS

Even though we lost everything else, we still have our voices,
BARBARA HAWKINS

Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.
PAULA HAWKINS

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted a...
SALLY HAWKINS

In theory yes this (interest rate hike) would work but the problem we have is that on the other hand...
ANTHONY HAWKINS

Its pretty much what I expected. It seems we are going to be stuck with double digit month on month ...
ANTHONY HAWKINS

US$120 million (euro97 million) would be used far more effectively for food, fuel and so forth.
ANTHONY HAWKINS

Their own figures suggest the country has been running a very severe balance of payments deficit.
ANTHONY HAWKINS

The Bad Ass Coffee Company named its company in honor of these hard-working donkeys.
AMBER HAWKINS

This game was huge. We had a lot of family and friends watching this game, and it was for bragging r...
AMBER HAWKINS

I was disappointed in the loss last week. I felt like I didn't play as hard as I could have, and tha...
AMBER HAWKINS

All that matters is that they're coming to our house with our fans. It's another chance to come out ...
ANGELA HAWKINS

I think we played good defense. We shaded in on Davenport. We wanted to make them beat us from the o...
ANGELA HAWKINS

We haven't been shooting the ball well lately. But we got some defensive stops late in the game and ...
STEVE HAWKINS

If by ‘graciously volunteered,’ you mean ‘was threatened and coerced,’ then yes, I did,
RACHEL HAWKINS

Wearing a $1,000 suit and driving a Ferrari may be better than riding around in a beaten-up
pic...
JOHN HAWKINS

We run up to forty personnel sets per game. My feeling is that we've got to find a way to get a guy ...
DAN HAWKINS

It can predict the trajectory of the ball down to a couple of millimetres.
PAUL HAWKINS

Guys are figuring out their roles. My key role is not turning over the ball. When I come in the game...
JEFF HAWKINS

I always tell my players, 'I want you to be abnormal,'
DAN HAWKINS

I've never even been to watch because I wanted the first time to be as a player.
BARRY HAWKINS

Ken had nobody to beat and I'm gutted after such a good season to have performed like that. But plen...
BARRY HAWKINS

We're highly underrated as a conference, I don't think there's any question about that, ... The vari...
DAN HAWKINS

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.
MIKE HAWKINS

When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ...
SALLY HAWKINS

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's ou...
TIM HAWKINS

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.
RONNIE HAWKINS

In the long-term, these people are going to be out of work like we've seen our people out of work,
RONNIE HAWKINS

They should never have to hire anybody from outside for big jobs in Canada. It's weird thinking, ......
RONNIE HAWKINS

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs...
RONNIE HAWKINS

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
RONNIE HAWKINS

It's Saturday night. Let's get drunk.
RONNIE HAWKINS

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing fo...
RONNIE HAWKINS

If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, someti...
COREY HAWKINS

Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy!
RACHEL HAWKINS

The kids really came back with a lot of positive emotion after a tough loss (Thursday to Springfield...
CHRIS HAWKINS

Well, it was a match, and I haven't slept in 2 1/2 weeks. We are going to have some fun. There are d...
HUGH HAWKINS

I was literally seeing stars, and every ragged breath I took felt like I was trying to breathe throu...
RACHEL HAWKINS

There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists. There are criminals who claim to be Muslims. W...
PAUL HAWKINS

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.
LARRY HAWKINS

It’s only when you know different comes the responsibility to be different.
PHILLIP HAWKINS

Barriers not only define our self imposed limitations, they also define our self worth and the value...
PHILLIP HAWKINS

Even with all this devastation, we know that we are blessed because we got out with our lives, ... E...
BARBARA HAWKINS

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I d...
COLEMAN HAWKINS

We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be peopl...
COREY HAWKINS

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it ...
TRIP HAWKINS

I've seen him do paintings, drawings, all different things. I asked him to draw our conference champ...
SCOTT HAWKINS

He was on today. It was little wet, damp and cold, but he battled. He didn't have a lot of strikeout...
CHRIS HAWKINS

First United Methodist Church has a van that's taking us to Birmingham.
CRYSTAL HAWKINS

Defensively, we've got a little more depth, ... We lost quite a few good players Š but we're deeper...
STEVE HAWKINS

So the Casnoffs are at Hex Hall. Probably with however many demons they've managed to create. What a...
RACHEL HAWKINS

I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh Go...
PAULA HAWKINS

I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

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Taylor Hawkins

I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

Taylor Hawkins

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