Quotes from Mike Shinoda


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I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.


You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.


My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.


In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.


I loved Transformers when I was a kid.


The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.


Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.


I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.


I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.


I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.


We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.


We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.


The casual listener won't be around forever.


Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.


I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.


Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?


I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.


I have a BFA in illustration.


I got over being embarrassed.


I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.