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Mike Shinoda Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 11, 1977

Topics

Music Brother Doing Remember Acting

I like to think that images of people doing amazing things may open people's eyes to the human potential, to the idea that people can do the extraordinary when they set their minds to it.

Eyes People Amazing Think Potential

The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.

Beautiful Story Problem Argument Yes

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

Hero Small Small Town Way Atmosphere

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.

Funny Great Past Think You Admit

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

Fight You Back Little Forever Get

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

Dress Hair Early Goal High Heels

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

Good Art Listening Believe Important

I feel that everything has to come from the heart, and it cannot come from the intellect.

Heart Feel Everything Intellect Come

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.

God Time Interesting Humanity Go

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

Love Fun People Laugh Comedy Doing

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.

Mickalene Thomas

Art School Me Think Criticism Know

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

Mistake Me Accountant Forty Years

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