Chester Bennington Quotes
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
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The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.
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I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
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Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
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The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.
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We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
