Mike Shinoda Quotes

• In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

  Mike Shinoda

• We have people in the band who don’t drink or do drugs… some of us like to go sightseeing.

  Mike Shinoda

• A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

  Mike Shinoda

• As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can’t shake it off.

  Mike Shinoda

• 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.

  Mike Shinoda

• I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

  Mike Shinoda

• I’d rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

  Mike Shinoda

• 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.

  Mike Shinoda

• We learned pretty early on in this band that you can’t have snobbery in music.

  Mike Shinoda

• Go find something that you haven’t done before. Don’t do the same thing over and over again.

  Mike Shinoda

Mike Shinoda (30)

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

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