Chester Bennington Quotes

• You’re constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you’ve made it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We’re shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

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• We’re not a political band, we’re a socially-minded band.

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

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• 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.

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• We don’t sit down and go, ‘People are uneasy about the economy. Let’s write about that.’

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• Touring for two years is excruciating.

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• To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

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• This is a business of love and labor.

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• There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn’t fanatical.

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

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• Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we’re onto something special.

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• My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.

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  Tags in Inside, Favorite

• It’s not cool to be an alcoholic.

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• 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.

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• If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Myself, Music, Pain

• I don’t like to hold back, because that’s how you hurt yourself.

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  Tags in Hurt, Because

Chester Bennington (27)

Birth:	20th March, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Lyricist, Singer

About

Chester Charles Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an American vocalist, singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock bands Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise. He is also the current lead vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots and rock cover band Bucket of Weenies. Bennington formed his own band, Dead by Sunrise as a side project in 2005. The band's debut album, Out of Ashes was released on October 13, 2009.

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