Mike Shinoda Quotes

• I’m excited to doing more scoring work in the future.

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• I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The casual listener won’t be around forever.

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• When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I’d watch carefully.

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• 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.

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• Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months’ worth of entertainment.

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• Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They’ve thought of the steps that you’re going to think of when you’re trying to create your thing. And that’s where the tools get invented to make better art.

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• 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.

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• I got over being embarrassed.

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• Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

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• I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

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• My parents still treat Christmas like I’m thirteen years old.

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• Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

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• The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

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• You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

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• I have a BFA in illustration.

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• I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

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• I’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

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Mike Shinoda (30)

Birth:	11th February, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Graphic Designer, Musician, Record Producer, Singer

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