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Famous Quotes By Richard Patrick

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You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song. You can't do that. You got to know the difference between stealing from being cool to the band and paying them what they're deserved. — Richard Patrick

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I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements. — Richard Patrick

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I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger. — Richard Patrick

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When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today ... 40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that. — Richard Patrick

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I appreciate CD's, but I've been digital for 10 years. — Richard Patrick

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For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy. — Richard Patrick

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I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better. — Richard Patrick

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My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do. — Richard Patrick

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You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes. — Richard Patrick

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CD's are amazing because you get the artwork, you get to look at the lyrics, you get to look at the behind-the-scenes photos or something. — Richard Patrick

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I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!" — Richard Patrick

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We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy ... — Richard Patrick

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You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of. — Richard Patrick

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Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're never going to have a Bruce Springsteen, those guys didn't make it off of their first single and real artists probably won't make it off of their first singles. — Richard Patrick

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The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with. — Richard Patrick

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I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead. — Richard Patrick

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I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to. — Richard Patrick

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I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted. — Richard Patrick

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I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!" — Richard Patrick

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I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital. — Richard Patrick

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To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time ... To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer. — Richard Patrick

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For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it's awesome to be a part of that tradition. — Richard Patrick

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Everywhere I go I'm always spotted on the streets. — Richard Patrick

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Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains. — Richard Patrick

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I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no. — Richard Patrick

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There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road. — Richard Patrick