Bennington Quotes & Sayings

This is a business of love and labor. — 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

It's not cool to be an alcoholic. — Chester Bennington

Mrs. Bennington's dramatic expression faded, and she made a face, much like a girl who has been given porridge when she expected thick ham. — Ashley Gardner

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

I don't go out and pick fights. — 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

My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside. — 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 thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty - and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima. — Kurt Vonnegut

As an artist, I want a reaction. — 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

I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. — Ron Bennington

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind. — 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

Reflecting back on your life is not only food for thought, but a Wiseman's bridge looking at how and why, you made your path for today! Will be most important, when you find yourself at the crossroads of tomorrow. Remember the goals you set yourself, travel the path closest to your heart. Trust your heart, your instincts, your soul. — Ron 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

When the Bennington was built, in 1872, it was said that the architect, who had descended from a long line of witches, fashioned the building on ancient occult principles so that it would always be a sort of magnet for the otherworldly. So as I said, don't pay any mind to the odd sounds or sights you might experience. It's just the Bennington, dear. — Libba Bray

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. — Chester Bennington

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself. — Chester Bennington

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping. — Chester Bennington

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it. — Chester Bennington

Our Fans are the best fans in the world , don't mess with them — Chester Bennington

You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid. — Chester Bennington

You'll never get dressed as quick as when you wake up next to a naked dead chick — Ron Bennington

very Chrishian of me. I do pray that you — Jeff 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

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact. — Bill Ayers

SPEAK SLOWLY AND PRECISELY! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU! — 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

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

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time. — Chester Bennington

I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother. I was glad for her, it meant more freedom for the rest of us. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do. — 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

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

[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don't grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you'd concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs! — A.G. Starling

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician. — Chester Bennington

I only stayed because you turned the lights out. — Elisabeth Bennington

If fans come up to me, I talk to them. — Chester Bennington

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. — Camille Paglia

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

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

You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live — 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

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. — Eva Gabor

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America. — Chester Bennington

About the Author Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages. — Anonymous

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage. — Chester Bennington

The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV. — Chester Bennington

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities. — 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