Mike Shinoda Quotes

• Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!

  Mike Shinoda

  Dream, Hard Work, Bigs

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• Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

  Mike Shinoda

  Done, Havens

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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

  Mike Shinoda

  Pain, Skills, Names

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• I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.

  Mike Shinoda

  Wings, One Day, World

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Ideas, Creative, Sometimes

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

  Mike Shinoda

  Moving, Ideas, Leaving

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• The casual listener won't be around forever.

  Mike Shinoda

  Forever, Casual, Listeners

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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

  Mike Shinoda

  Talking, Opposites, Trying

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• I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Kids

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Tired, Waiting, Sound

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• I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy

  Mike Shinoda

  Sexy, Toothbrushes

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• Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

  Mike Shinoda

  Up Early, Screw Ups, Body

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Long, Goal, Guy

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Gps, Car, Feelings

  Variety Interview, July 16, 2007.

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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, Guy, Groups

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• My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

  Mike Shinoda

  Christmas, Years, Parent

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Teacher, Uncles, Dad

  "Linkin Park: 'We're famous, but we're not celebrities'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2011.

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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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  Hair, Elbows, Red

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Writing, Kids, Who I Am

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Song, Jumping, Quiet

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Excited, Feels, Budgets

  Source: collider.com

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• I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

  Mike Shinoda

  Piano, Homework, Hated

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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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• 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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  Mom, Kids, Artist

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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.

  Mike Shinoda

  Giving, Water, Focus

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