Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing … - Mike Patton

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There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Mike Patton

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.

Fantasy, Idiot, Like, Music, Playing Music, Thinking

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Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day. . . Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.

Kings, Revenge, Think, Wall, Way

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

Atheist, Humorous, Person, Profound, Right

I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

Land, Song, Stole, Sunshine, Took

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.

Choose, People, Rhythm, Sound, Thinking, Works

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

Method, Methods, Objectivity, Subjectivity, Synonymous

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