Mike Shinoda Quotes

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.

Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.