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Top 15 Mike Patton Quotes (2025 Update)

Mike Patton Quote: “If a person wants to be atheistic it’s his God-given right to be an atheist.”

1. “If a person wants to be atheistic it’s his God-given right to be an atheist.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That’s all.”

2. “We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That’s all.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.”

3. “Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.”

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Mike Patton Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “I am no one to be a purist.”

5. “I am no one to be a purist.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “That’s one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.”

6. “That’s one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.”

7. “When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “I guess I’m getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they’re hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.”

8. “I guess I’m getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they’re hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.”

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Mike Patton Quote: “I don’t know why, but there’s a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I’m not sure I enjoy. I don’t write lyrics first, ever. I’ve never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought – it’s music first.”

9. “I don’t know why, but there’s a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I’m not sure I enjoy. I don’t write lyrics first, ever. I’ve never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought – it’s music first.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “I’m not a poet. I’m not up onstage to get something off my chest. I’m making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I’m not going to get in the way of that.”

10. “I’m not a poet. I’m not up onstage to get something off my chest. I’m making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I’m not going to get in the way of that.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I’ve hired. Second place is not even close.”

11. “Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I’ve hired. Second place is not even close.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “Trey Spruance didn’t want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.”

12. “Trey Spruance didn’t want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn’t know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you’ve gotta figure out a way of executing it.”

13. “The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn’t know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you’ve gotta figure out a way of executing it.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn’t me sitting in a room by myself. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.”

16. “I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn’t me sitting in a room by myself. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.”

— Mike Patton

Mike Patton Quote: “If someone were to hire me for a film they’d be getting a certain kind of package, that’s for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.”

17. “If someone were to hire me for a film they’d be getting a certain kind of package, that’s for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.”

— Mike Patton

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