Dave Lombardo Quotes

#1. Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life ... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

Dave Lombardo

#2. I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.

Dave Lombardo

#3. Excellence means that you're prospering spiritually, mentally, physically and in every area of life. What does it mean to prosper? It means to do well, to have over and above, to walk in a high level with God. It means to be in a high class with God, where you can think like God and live like Him.

Chris Oyakhilome

#4. You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

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#5. There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

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#6. We are optimists, until we are not.

Charles Darwin

#7. Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

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#8. There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

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#9. When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

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#10. We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

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#11. At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family.

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#12. Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

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#13. I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

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#14. The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.

Adyashanti

#15. When you are not needed, you are not needed. Period!

Honeya

#16. You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

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#17. When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Garry Kasparov

#18. I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around.

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#19. One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

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#20. Beyond the limits there lies other limits.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

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#22. My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

Goran Ivanisevic

#23. I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

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#24. A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Jane Austen

#25. Mike Patton is a genius ... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

Dave Lombardo