Tommy Lee Quotes

#1. The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

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#2. It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

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#3. One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

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#4. I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

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#5. There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

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#6. On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.

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#7. But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

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#8. The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

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#9. Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

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#10. Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

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#11. On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.

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#12. I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

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#13. I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.

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#14. I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

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#15. The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

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#16. I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

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#17. I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

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#18. I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

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#19. The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

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#20. I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

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#21. I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

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#22. I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

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#23. My oldest boy is 14, and he's not in that kind of awkward stage where, when we talk about girls, or there's a hot girl walking by - they're just so shy; it's weird.

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#24. John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

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#25. Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

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#26. Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

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#27. Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

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#28. I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'-
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#29. I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

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#30. One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he sucker-punched me and relocated my nose to the other side of my face. What up, Mr. Drum Captain? How's your drumming going, bro? Played any arenas lately?

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#31. So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.

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#32. I was always impressed by some of the progressive styles of guys like Neil Peart.

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#33. Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

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#34. We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.

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#35. Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot ... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?

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#36. That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

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#37. I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

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#38. It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

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#39. The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.

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#40. I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

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#41. Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

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#42. I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks.

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#43. I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.

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#44. I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

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#45. There was one dude in a jeans jacket who I swear to God shit in his pants when all of a sudden I was inches away from his face playing drums in the air.

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#46. I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.

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#47. I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

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#48. Playing upside down is insane. It's two or three times more difficult than what's normal. Your feet want to come off the pedals, your arms want to drop down - all of your body is fighting gravity.

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#49. I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

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#50. My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let's just say that, in between times, maybe it's not quite so clean.

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#51. By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

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#52. Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

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#53. The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

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#54. I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

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#55. Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.

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#56. One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

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#57. When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

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#58. Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

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#59. What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.

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#60. You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

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#61. Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

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#62. The only thing that's changed for me is that I've figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.

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#63. Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

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#64. I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

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#65. I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

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#66. I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.

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#67. Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.

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#68. Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

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#69. Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

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#70. It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.

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#71. I don't know how much you know about me, but I kind of have my fingers in a lot of different pies.

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#72. Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!

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#73. There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

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#74. I'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'

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#75. I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

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#76. I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

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#77. The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!

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#78. I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid.

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#79. I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

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#80. There are things you do that just come natural, and sometimes those are amazingly in synch, and sometimes they're horribly out of synch, and you're like, 'Ooo! That wasn't very good tonight.' Most of the time, it's just on.

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#81. I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.

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#82. I threw my son, Brandon, a rave for his birthday and I fully set it up like a crazy rave with lights and sound, me and my partner DJ'd - I got Mix Master Mike from the Beastie Boys to come DJ for a bit.

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#83. At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

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#84. Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

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#85. I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

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#86. I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history' ... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move ... do something fresh and new.'

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#87. The very first thing I look at on a woman is her toes.

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#88. When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods ... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.

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#89. When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

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#90. Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

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#91. A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

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#92. The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.

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#93. There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

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#94. I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

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#95. I don't have a problem with my temper.

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#96. It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

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#97. I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.

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#98. Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

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#99. Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

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#100. Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

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