Quotes by Mike Patton

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 with that.

Idiot

Playing Music

Thinking

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist… ‘The devil’s wife,’ someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

Artist

Devil

Wife

I am no one to be a purist.

I don’t know why, but there’s a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I’m not sure I enjoy. I don’t write lyrics first, ever. I’ve never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought – it’s music first.

Done

Elements

Writing

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 together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

Land

Song

Sunshine

I guess I’m getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they’re hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

Jobs

People

Real

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 know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.

People

Sitting

Voice

I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying to learn about Italian music. And what I ended up gravitating towards was this stuff from the ’50s and ’60s and maybe early ’70s, where there were these incredibly talented pop singers that weren’t using pop bands.

Dirty

Hands

Italian

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.

People

Sound

Thinking

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 to figure out, and I’m not going to get in the way of that.

Musical

People

Way

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Angel

Artist

Atheist

Contentment

Creative

Culture

Dangerous Situations

Devil

Directors

Dirty

Done

Dust

Educator

Elements

Environmental

Focus

Great Things

Guitar

Hands

Humorous

Idiot

Italian

Jealous

Jobs

Kind

Kings

Land

Long

Magazines

Method

Musical

Objectivity

People

Playing Music

Profound

Real

Revenge

Sitting

Song

Sound

Stuff

Subjectivity

Sunshine

Thinking

Thoroughbreds

Tools

Touring

Vision

Voice

Wall

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Quotes by Mike Patton

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 with that.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist… ‘The devil’s wife,’ someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

I am no one to be a purist.

I don’t know why, but there’s a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I’m not sure I enjoy. I don’t write lyrics first, ever. I’ve never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought – it’s music first.

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 together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

I guess I’m getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they’re hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

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 know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.

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’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 to figure out, and I’m not going to get in the way of that.

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