Mike Shinoda Quotes

If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

Mike Shinoda Linkin Park

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Change
  • Me

• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Support
  • Innovation

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Today
  • Beginning

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Decisions

• No one wears high heels all day, every day.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Need

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Relationships

• If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won't be scared of going back.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Destiny

• I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Pretty
  • Period
  • Humans

• When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

  

  Avicii
  • Music
  • Period

• I think heavy metal is therapeutic - it's music that blows the tension away. I think that's why people who have had really bad childhoods are attracted to heavy metal. It allows people to release aggression and tension in a nonviolent way. Also, heavy metal seems to attract all sorts of scruffy, lost animals, strays no one wants.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Music
  • Hip Hop
  • Magazines