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Michael Allan Patton is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and film composer, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative metal band Faith No More. Patton is also the founder and lead singer of Mr. Bungle, and has played with Tomahawk, Fantômas, Dead Cross, Lovage, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mondo Cane, and Peeping Tom.

Known for his eclectic influences and experimental projects, Patton has earned critical praise for his diverse array of vocal techniques. VVN Music found Patton possesses the widest vocal range of any known singer in popular music, with a range of six octaves. He has worked as a producer or co-producer with artists such as John Zorn, Sepultura, Melvins, Melt-Banana, and Kool Keith. He co-founded Ipecac Recordings with Greg Werckman in 1999, and has run the label since. Patton's vast number of musical endeavours and constant touring have led to him being widely identified as a "workaholic". Wikipedia  

✵ 27. January 1968
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Famous Mike Patton Quotes

“Oh, have you seen Beavis and Butt-Head when they watch one of our videos and Beavis goes: 'These guys sound just like the Chili Peppers?' As if I haven't heard that one before!”

Mike Patton

"Dangerous Jokers" - (Nieuwe Revu, 17-24 May 1995)

“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

Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

“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.”

Mike Patton

"Faith No More" - (CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995)

“Despite the aural onslaught, King (For A Day) is not an assault I think it's us being us, more than anything. I think we finally had the resources to be us on this record.”

Mike Patton

"Faith No More" - (CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995)

“Recently, a girl chained herself to me with hand-cuffs after a gig, just because I refused to talk to her. I politely declined, though. I am a well-bred boy. I don't want to be too specific, but… it got pretty ugly.”

Mike Patton

"Dangerous Jokers" - (Nieuwe Revu, 17-24 May 1995)

“Big Jim is over and out, as far as I am concerned.”

Mike Patton

"Dangerous Jokers" - (Nieuwe Revu, 17-24 May 1995)

Mike Patton Quotes

“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

"Dangerous Jokers" - (Nieuwe Revu, 17-24 May 1995)

“It's (RV) about a slob sitting around who doesn't do anything. I kind of identify with it.”

Mike Patton

Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

“There's a lot of positive stuff to say about him… Why can't I think of any now? (laughs) Oh, here's something positive: Big Jim's best trait of character was that he has always been himself… which was his worst trait of character at the same time.”

Mike Patton

"Dangerous Jokers" - (Nieuwe Revu, 17-24 May 1995)

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

Mike Patton

"Faith No More" - (CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995)

“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.”

Mike Patton

Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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