Mike Shinoda famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!
-- Mike Shinoda

#Dream #Hard Work #Bigs
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
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
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
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
-- Mike Shinoda

#Moving #Ideas #Leaving
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.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Hair #Elbows #Red
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 #Band
Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Body #Screw Ups #Screws
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
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
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

#Goal #Long #Guy
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Sneakers #Collectors
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Piano #Years #Parks
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
The casual listener won't be around forever.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Forever #Casual
I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Excited
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.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Mom #Kids #Artist
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
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.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Summer #Thinking #Years
I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Piano #Homework #Hated
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

#Running #Brother #Silly
I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Cutting #Technology #Excited
My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Christmas #Years #Parent
Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Done
I loved Transformers when I was a kid.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Kids
I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy
-- Mike Shinoda

#Sexy #Toothbrushes
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.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Opportunity #Guy #Lucky
I'm going to sprout wings out of my ***** one day and fly around the world.
-- Mike Shinoda

#Wings #One Day #World

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