"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 Quotes #Years Quotes #Parks Quotes

“We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.”
“I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.”
“I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.”
“I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.”
“All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.”
“The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.”

Source : Alcæus, Fragment LXXXVI. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
“I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I sometimes do. So it was an attempt to dig into the race and history in America, and to make it personal and dramatic.”

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