Top 60 Mike Patton Quotes

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When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way – ‘I’m gonna make this mine somehow.’ You need to put your imprint on the situation that you’re in.
Mike Patton
I don’t like to use toilets – ever.
Mike Patton
I’m not a trained musician.
Mike Patton
The only way I can make sense of my music is to compartmentalize it as opposed to having one band that I have to throw everything into. For me, it’s just more fun and more challenging to create little worlds where a song or a piece can make sense.
Mike Patton
Hearing other peoples’ interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they’re better.
Mike Patton
I don’t get too much enjoyment out of sitting around the campfire and looking at old photos. That’s just not me. I don’t get the thrill of doing that. So, I don’t sit around listening to my old records.
Mike Patton
I saw G.G. Allin live once.
Mike Patton
I am perfectly aware of my position in commercial music.
Mike Patton
My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.
Mike Patton
I create a guise or a band that I can operate within, and within each one of those bands, I’ve got an M.O. or a set of rules and parameters I can work within.
Mike Patton
Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!
Mike Patton
I’ve always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.
Mike Patton
I had never been taken in like I was in Italy just by saying a few words. That made me feel like I had to put in the effort, and I want to be one of them.
Mike Patton
I’m not in the business of suffering.
Mike Patton
When you’re young and creative, you don’t know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.
Mike Patton
I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it’s pop or noise or whatever, it’s always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It’s not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that’s fine.
Mike Patton
Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.
Mike Patton
In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.
Mike Patton
Golf is the only sport I’ve encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.
Mike Patton
I think that first and foremost, a lot of turntable artists end up using really the same sounds over and over, and they really get recycled.
Mike Patton
With Faith No More, even though we’re a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience.
Mike Patton
I’ve had at least a couple botched surgeries.
Mike Patton
Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.
Mike Patton
I would like to do more film scoring, period. Whether it is a big film, a small film, or just anything. I feel like I have a lot to learn, and what better way to do it than on the job?
Mike Patton
Things die for a reason, and in Bungle’s case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I’d go crawling back to.
Mike Patton
When you have to put on shades in the studio, you know you have to stop.
Mike Patton
I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.
Mike Patton
A lot of concerts are just too safe.
Mike Patton
Especially with Fantomas, i’m just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can’t get away with.
Mike Patton
The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.
Mike Patton
You don’t have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.
Mike Patton
There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos a

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes – because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.
Mike Patton
I like to have a few things going on at once. It feels natural.
Mike Patton
I got a PS3 and a PSP. The Wii looks fun.
Mike Patton
When you do live abroad, you’re basically searching for some kind of peace.
Mike Patton
If I’m not happy with the quality of something I’m working on, I won’t put it out. That does not mean that others won’t question the quality.
Mike Patton
I don’t read or write music in the traditional sense, so I have to figure it out on the fly while I’m in the studio.
Mike Patton
From what I’ve heard, videogame soundtracks – obviously, there’s less budget and all of that – it just seems like game soundtracks are farmed out among friends. And it seems like more of an afterthought. It’s a videogame. It’s much more background.
Mike Patton
To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.
Mike Patton
If they’re acting like a dog, sometimes you’re forced to treat people like dogs.
Mike Patton
If I admire someone’s music, I’ll walk up to ’em and tell ’em.
Mike Patton
We’re constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.
Mike Patton
My wife is Italian, and I lived there for six years.
Mike Patton
I’ve had the new band experience plenty of times, and sometimes, it just sort of peters out.
Mike Patton
I like the cut of my gib. I dislike the way I move.
Mike Patton
I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don’t think the world needs that.
Mike Patton
Orchestral musicians have a different approach than we do, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean musicians who don’t know what they are doing.
Mike Patton
I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.
Mike Patton
With Mr. Bungle, I’d lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I’d ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.
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I’m a little tired of travelling the world, jaded as that may sound.
Mike Patton
You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it’s an open forum where you can get away with almost anything, so you might as well do it.
Mike Patton
There’s a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That’s the world we live in.
Mike Patton
I’ve got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It’s a nice, free feeling.
Mike Patton
I really don’t want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense – on an artistic level, but also for my label.
Mike Patton
Legacy is something you talk about when you’re dead – and I’m not dead yet.
Mike Patton
To me, the stage is like the free zone. That’s what makes it exhilarating. For whatever reason, there’s this weird little square where it’s kind of a romper room for adults.
Mike Patton
Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.
Mike Patton
A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It’s cutthroat like anything else.
Mike Patton
Touring is a weird thing. It’s like getting married to four different people.
Mike Patton
I’m surprised that anyone cares about what I do.
Mike Patton