9 Chester Bennington Quotes on Music

Chester Bennington quotes on music

5. Cyclefly is one of my favorite bands and their new record is one of the best I've heard in a long time. If you don't like it, you suck!

7. We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in america.

8. We're pretty straight guys: we're not boozers, we're not fucked up on drugs.

9. 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.

13. We're not the Grateful Dead or Pink Floyd. We're Linkin Park, and we cut all the fat out. We don't do guitar or drum solos.

14. I'm not a rapper, so I would be pretty bad at trying to rap in a band. Mike isn't naturally a singer, but the funny thing is he has a really good voice.

20. Not only that, but I can't sleep anywhere, but the fuckin' bus! I need to buy a bus and park it in front of my house, so that when I go home, at night when I go to bed, I just go to the bed. Or I need to install a half of a bus in my room, with bunks, so I can sleep in it. Not only is touring overglamorised, but the smell is completely under-rated. We got in a tour bus after a certain band had used it and we actually had to take the top of the bus off with a metal-melting machine and air it out, because it smelt like rotting flesh, BO and fromage! I'm not going to name the band' after mike said they live on a tour bus, becouse of the amount of time they spent touring.

22. I meet a lot of people, dude, and I've never been star-struck, but I met Scott and I was like, 'Hi Scott - my name is durrrh' He was like, 'Are you alright, dude?' and I was like, 'Yeah - I mean, my name's Chester and I think you're great, I just wanted to tell you' I felt like a total schmuck! He was like, 'Well, are you in a band or what?' and I was like, 'Yeah, I'm in a band called Linkin Park' and he was like, 'You just played today, right?' and I went, 'Yeah' and he went, 'I've heard real cool things about you - good luck!' and I was like, 'Nargggh' And I mean, when I met him, I was in the middle of talking to the bass player from Green Day and these bands are like of the same calibre, but talking to the bass player from Green Day, I was totally comfortable - 'Yeah, dude, what's up, man? It's cool to meet you!' - and here comes Scott and I'm like, 'Urrrgh!' I don't know why - maybe I'm gay!

24. At ten o'clock every night, we'd hear (he bangs his fist against the wall) and that was our alarm, so we almost ended up naming the band 'Ten PM Stocker', 'cause we recorded on Stocker Street every night and at 10 PM, we had to stop