Chester Bennington Quotes

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 Stone Temple Pilots

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• I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Religious

• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Father
  • Thought
  • Would

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Hell

• We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Season

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Unhappy

• I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Gymnastics
  • Perfectionist

• It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Art
  • Greatest

• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • More
  • Object

• You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • You
  • Training
  • Fitness

• Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Government
  • Unity
  • Motto

• I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Europe
  • Communism
  • Haunting

• I started writing songs at age 15.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Started

• There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Nature

• Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Greatness

• 'I was trained in the old tradition! We found our strength in the basic verities, to which you, as a patrician, must surely subscribe. Am I right in this?''Absolutely, and in all respects!' declared Cugel. 'Recognizing, of course, that these fundamental verities vary from region to region, and even from person to person.'

  

  Jack Vance

• He liked slim books which he could slip into his overcoat pocket and leave there unread for months. What was the point of a book if you couldn’t carry it around with you as a theoretical defence against boredom?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Book

• The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

  

  F. Ross Johnson
  • Lawyer
  • Coffins

• I would describe my personal style as eclectic.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Style
  • Personal Style

• I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.

  

  James Turrell
  • Dark

• My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples, I think that, at this juncture, it is a story that just has to be believed.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Mother

• 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 Stone Temple Pilots