Richard Patrick famous quotes

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.
-- Richard Patrick

#Dirty #People #Greedy

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.
-- Richard Patrick

#Crazy #School #Shooting

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.
-- Richard Patrick

#People #Giving #Relief

The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.
-- Richard Patrick

#War #Crazy #Government

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.
-- Richard Patrick

#Cynical #Kind #Sometimes

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.
-- Richard Patrick

#Guy #Way #Saying Yes

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.
-- Richard Patrick

#Beer #Thinking #People

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"
-- Richard Patrick

#Nice #Validation #Proud

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.
-- Richard Patrick

#Airports #Clubs #Digital

CD's are amazing because you get the artwork, you get to look at the lyrics, you get to look at the behind-the-scenes photos or something.
-- Richard Patrick

#Cds #Looks #Behind The Scenes

For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy.
-- Richard Patrick

#Kind #Craziness #Phenomenon

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
-- Richard Patrick

#Song #Writing #Perfect

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.
-- Richard Patrick

#School #Kids #Hey

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.
-- Richard Patrick

#Heart #The End Of The Day #Records

You just have to follow your own heart.
-- Richard Patrick

#Heart

Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're never going to have a Bruce Springsteen, those guys didn't make it off of their first single and real artists probably won't make it off of their first singles.
-- Richard Patrick

#Real #Artist #Guy

I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead.
-- Richard Patrick

#Baby #Years #Wife

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.
-- Richard Patrick

#Gun #Idols #Want

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.
-- Richard Patrick

#Gun #Kind #Speak

I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"
-- Richard Patrick

#Sorry #People #Way

I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand ***** in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.
-- Richard Patrick

#Couple #Thinking #Kind

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.
-- Richard Patrick

#Children #Wife #People

I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.
-- Richard Patrick

#Done #March

I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.
-- Richard Patrick

#Stay Positive #Today And Tomorrow #Live For Today

Stop fighting and learn how to communicate honestly with each other.
-- Richard Patrick

#Fighting #Communicate #Honestly

Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.
-- Richard Patrick

#Lying #Mind #Use

I care about this crazy little planet and I would love to make a difference.
-- Richard Patrick

#Crazy #Differences #Making A Difference

I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.
-- Richard Patrick

#Differences #Making A Difference #Way

The fans have made my dreams come true. For that, I'm super grateful.
-- Richard Patrick

#Dream #Grateful #Fans

My wife and children are the greatest force that keeps me sober and strong.
-- Richard Patrick

#Strong #Children #Wife

Love is my family. I would die for them.
-- Richard Patrick

#Love Is #My Family #Dies

Everywhere I go I'm always spotted on the streets.
-- Richard Patrick

#Streets

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.
-- Richard Patrick

#People #Giving #Ears

There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road.
-- Richard Patrick

#Different #Different Roads

I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.
-- Richard Patrick

#Thinking #Drunk #Faces

You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song. You can't do that. You got to know the difference between stealing from being cool to the band and paying them what they're deserved.
-- Richard Patrick

#Song #Differences #House

I appreciate CD's, but I've been digital for 10 years.
-- Richard Patrick

#Years #Cds #Appreciate

I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to.
-- Richard Patrick

#Player #Flames #Oil

Seeing my children makes me come most alive. I come home and I see my kids' faces light up when they see me at the door with my guitar case. They run to me, we hug. I never go beyond a few weeks without being in their presence, so they have adjusted quite well.
-- Richard Patrick

#Running #Children #Kids