Chester Bennington Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 47 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Chester Bennington.
Famous Quotes By Chester Bennington
There was another time when Mike was really foul mood and we had to make a pit stop so he could use a porta potty. Mike went to use the porta potty and we were waiting inside the RV. It was joe's idea, but we all got out and started to rock the thing back and forth. We didn't mean to, but we ended up tipping the porta potty over while Mike was in it! Then we attacked him with air freshener — Chester Bennington
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions. — Chester Bennington
Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades. — Chester Bennington
Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah — Chester Bennington
We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' — Chester Bennington
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. — Chester Bennington
I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you. — Chester Bennington
What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back. — Chester Bennington
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical. — Chester Bennington
SPEAK SLOWLY AND PRECISELY! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU! — Chester Bennington
You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid. — Chester Bennington
You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it. — Chester Bennington
I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping. — Chester Bennington
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. — Chester Bennington
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something. — Chester Bennington
I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself. — Chester Bennington
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities. — Chester Bennington
It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time. — Chester Bennington
I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from. — Chester Bennington
Touring for two years is excruciating. — Chester Bennington
Our Fans are the best fans in the world , don't mess with them — Chester Bennington
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time. — Chester Bennington
When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess. — Chester Bennington
You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live — Chester Bennington
Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. — Chester Bennington
We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming. — Chester Bennington
Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician. — Chester Bennington
If fans come up to me, I talk to them. — Chester Bennington
Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by ... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible. — Chester Bennington
Alright ... here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side ... you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there ... wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him. — Chester Bennington
We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band. — Chester Bennington
The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do. — Chester Bennington
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music. — Chester Bennington
The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV. — Chester Bennington
It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another. — Chester Bennington
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. — Chester Bennington
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there. — Chester Bennington
We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America. — Chester Bennington
Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage. — Chester Bennington
Alone in a world, With millions of souls
Walking in circles
Trapped in their dreams
unhealthy, unclean
walking in circles, now
do not disturb
scream in silence
everyone's sleeping — Chester Bennington
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore. — Chester Bennington