We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. Mike Shinoda More Quotes by Mike Shinoda More Quotes From Mike Shinoda I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more. Mike Shinoda red elbows hair For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on. Mike Shinoda budgets excited feels Right now, when it comes to making an album, we really want to give our fans just Linkin Park. We don't want to water it down with anything else or confuse it with anything else. Meteora is just us and that's where our focus has been. So hopefully the fans can enjoy that. Mike Shinoda focus giving water global warming. every day i leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day. Mike Shinoda summer years thinking I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. Mike Shinoda homework piano hated 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. Mike Shinoda brother silly running I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. Mike Shinoda keyboards piano years I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began. Mike Shinoda rapper couple years I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector. Mike Shinoda collectors sneakers I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news. Mike Shinoda news tonight example I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future. Mike Shinoda excited When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully. Mike Shinoda band watches school I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology. Mike Shinoda excited cutting technology 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. Mike Shinoda computers you man art You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material. Mike Shinoda listen back go you I got over being embarrassed. Mike Shinoda got over being embarrassed We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing. Mike Shinoda go drink band people In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them. Mike Shinoda myself friends high-school school I have a BFA in illustration. Mike Shinoda illustration The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs. Mike Shinoda days software music different
