Thinking 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

Mike Patton

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

Mike Patton

Puffy’s the only guy who’s jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it’s a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

Focus

Jealous

Thinking

Mike Patton

The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna…I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way…like she’s going through some sort of problem. It seems she’s getting a bit desperate.

Magazines

Song

Thinking

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Atheist

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Creative

Culture

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Devil

Directors

Dirty

Done

Dust

Educator

Elements

Environmental

Focus

Great Things

Guitar

Hands

Humorous

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Italian

Jealous

Jobs

Kind

Kings

Land

Long

Magazines

Method

Musical

Objectivity

People

Playing Music

Profound

Real

Revenge

Sitting

Song

Sound

Stuff

Subjectivity

Sunshine

Thinking

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Tools

Touring

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Voice

Wall

Way

Wife

Writing

Thinking Quotes by 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.

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.

Puffy’s the only guy who’s jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it’s a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

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