Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Patton
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!
When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.
I lived in Bologna. I go back quite often, and I still have lots of connections and lots of friends. It was a nice period in my life.
Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.
With Mr. Bungle, I'd lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I'd ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.
If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.
Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.
Sometimes a certain project will have a smell... It will have a little stench about it. That is a warning signal. You know it's going to be a nightmare. You know they are not going to like it, and it's not worth it.
I had never been taken in like I was in Italy just by saying a few words. That made me feel like I had to put in the effort, and I want to be one of them.
Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.
There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.
I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places.
I'm not a trained musician.
If I admire someone's music, I'll walk up to 'em and tell 'em.
When you do live abroad, you're basically searching for some kind of peace.
The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.
In earlier years, I was more of a clown with a big bag of tricks. I'd show up in the studio and kind of go, 'Well, what do you want? Do you want the screaming banshee or the howling owl?'
Part of what Faith No More shows are is chaos and unpredictability.
More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.
Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.
I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.
Most film scores have one vibe, and they stick with it.
It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.
I don't read or write music in the traditional sense, so I have to figure it out on the fly while I'm in the studio.
I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.
I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.
I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.
That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.
Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.
When you have to put on shades in the studio, you know you have to stop.
Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.
I've had at least a couple botched surgeries.
I remember playing with John Zorn and Ikue Mori in Taiwan in a school classroom. There were, like, 15 people there, maybe, and they were sitting at the classroom desks, and we played under the chalkboard. There's no difference between playing that and the 'download' festival.
The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.
To me, the stage is like the free zone. That's what makes it exhilarating. For whatever reason, there's this weird little square where it's kind of a romper room for adults.
In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.
I'm not in the business of suffering.
You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it's an open forum where you can get away with almost anything, so you might as well do it.
We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.
Touring is a weird thing. It's like getting married to four different people.
I think that first and foremost, a lot of turntable artists end up using really the same sounds over and over, and they really get recycled.
You don't want to eat haute cuisine all the time; it's not healthy.
Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.
I think you create your own freedom.
I'm not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore.
There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.
Relationships are complicated - put it that way, okay?
With Faith No More, even though we're a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience.
Everywhere you look, there's someone doing your thinking for you and telling you what to think and when to think of it.
I don't get too much enjoyment out of sitting around the campfire and looking at old photos. That's just not me. I don't get the thrill of doing that. So, I don't sit around listening to my old records.
I like the cut of my gib. I dislike the way I move.
I've had the new band experience plenty of times, and sometimes, it just sort of peters out.
I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.
There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.
The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.
I saw G.G. Allin live once.
I have to make an effort about things like going to the grocery store. That stuff reminds me that I don't live in the real world, and you know what? I'm thankful.
I'm surprised that anyone cares about what I do.
I grew up in a really small town.
The only way I can make sense of my music is to compartmentalize it as opposed to having one band that I have to throw everything into. For me, it's just more fun and more challenging to create little worlds where a song or a piece can make sense.
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