Mike Patton Quotes
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.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!
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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.
