Quotes by Mike Shinoda - Page 1

I got over being embarrassed.
Mike Shinoda / Musician
Embarrassed
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I loved Transformers when I was a kid.
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Loved Kid
Transformers
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I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy
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Sexy
Toothbrushes
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Usually I spend my holidays with my family.
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Holidays
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The casual listener won't be around forever.
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Casual
Forever
Listeners
Listener
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Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!
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Dream
Bigs
Hard Work
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I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
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Scoring
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I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
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Collectors
Sneakers
Collector
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My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
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Christmas
Smile
Parent
Thirteen
Treats
Years
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I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
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Hated
Homework
Piano
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I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.
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One Day
Wings
World
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You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.
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Material
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We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.
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Snobbery
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When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
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Band
School
Watches
School High School High
Carefully
Popular
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Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.
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Advice
Entertainment
Provide
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Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
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Moving On
Ideas
Leaving
Moving
Next
Relate
Behind
Idea
Chapter
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I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
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Technology
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Electronic Music
Excited
Edge
Electronic
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In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.
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Beats
Myself School High School
Rapping
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Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
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Body
Screw Ups
Up Early
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I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
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Screw
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Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.
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Done
Havens
Same Thing
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As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
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Creative
Creative Person
Ideas
Sometimes
Your Sometimes Person
Idea
Off
Head
Shake
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A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
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Chasing
Goal
Guy
Long
Long Time
Decade
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I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
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Keyboards
Piano
Ten
Years
Classical
Led
Park
Ten Years
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I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.
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Jumping
Quiet
Song
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When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.
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Decided
Just Do It
Sound
Tired
Waiting
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For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on.
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Budgets
Excited
Feels
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I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news.
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Example
News
Tonight
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I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up
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Opposites
Talking
Trying
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The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.
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Computer
Different Ways
Instruments
Software
Applications
Programs
Physical
So Many Different Ways
Virtual
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My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
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Uncles
Dad
Teacher
Citizens
Class
School
Second Class Citizens
Trusted
Japanese
Outright
Remembers
Second-Class
Uncle
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This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name
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Names
Pain
Skills
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I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
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Kids
Mom
Artist
Lessons
Little Kid
Painter
Piano Lessons
Young Kid
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I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.
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Opportunity
Detrimental
Groups
Guy
Loyal
Opportunities
Potentially
Stayed
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I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.
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Couple
Rapper
Years
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I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.
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Elbows
Embarrassed
Hair
Pants
Red
Red Hair
Size
Today
Bright
Elbow
Wear
Point
Wrist
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I really enjoy it - it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.
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Car
Feelings
Gps
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Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.
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Computers
Steps
Tools
Apple
Uses
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Right now, when it comes to making an album, we really want to give our fans just Linkin Park. We don't want to water it down with anything else or confuse it with anything else. Meteora is just us and that's where our focus has been. So hopefully the fans can enjoy that.
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Focus
Giving
Water
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If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.
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Kids
Who I Am
Writing
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I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.
Mike Shinoda / Musician
Running
Being Silly
Brother
Different Things
Little Kid
Living Room
Neighborhood
Score
Silly
Sitting
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global warming. every day i leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.
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Summer
Thinking
Years
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