I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm not because of the meaning.
I am no one to be a purist. - Mike Patton
I am no one to be a purist.
- Mike Patton
I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them togeth… - Mike Patton
I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them togeth…
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people t… - Mike Patton
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people t…
If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the… - Mike Patton
If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the…
Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity. - Mike Patton
Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.
We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. - Mike Patton
We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist. - Mike Patton
If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.
I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't kno… - Mike Patton
I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't kno…
Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong wit… - Mike Patton
Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong wit…
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