Mike Patton
Musician
1968-01-27
Quotes by Mike Patton
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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
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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.
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Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their ideas in one pot and move on. Me, I need to compartmentalize.
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Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.
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Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!
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I remember playing with John Zorn and Ikue Mori in Taiwan in a school classroom. There were, like, 15 people there, maybe, and they were sitting at the classroom desks, and we played under the chalkboard. There's no difference between playing that and the 'download' festival.
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I don't like to use toilets - ever.
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I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture: the music, art, literature, film, food, and history. It's easy to fall in love with. As a country, Italy does a good job of holding onto its rich traditions and culture. There's a real lack of embracing history in America.
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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.
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Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.
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There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.
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Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.
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Part of what Faith No More shows are is chaos and unpredictability.
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Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.
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'A Perfect Place' is character-driven. The director for that wanted a couple of identifiable themes with a bunch of variations. That is what I did. The director for 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' did not want that at all.
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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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