Words matter. These are the best Mike Shinoda Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We learned pretty early on in this band that you can’t have snobbery in music.
The casual listener won’t be around forever.
You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
I got over being embarrassed.
My parents still treat Christmas like I’m thirteen years old.
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.
In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.
The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.
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.
Go find something that you haven’t done before. Don’t do the same thing over and over again.
I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
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.
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.
When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I’d watch carefully.
Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months’ worth of entertainment.
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.
I loved Transformers when I was a kid.
Usually I spend my holidays with my family.
