Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington
Chester Charles Benningtonis an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock bands Linkin Park, Dead by Sunrise, and live rock cover band Bucket of Weenies. He was originally the lead vocalist for Sean Dowdell And His Friends? and Grey Daze. From 2013 to 2015, Bennington was also the lead vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 March 1976
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
Chester Bennington quotes about
If fans come up to me, I talk to them.
It's not cool to be an alcoholic.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.
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.
You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live
I thought it sounded great, but at the same time I said, 'I think I am going to puke,' because you can't mess it up. Either you go out and you nail it or you quit the business, pack up and move to some strange country where no one knows who you are. It was really that much pressure, but what was really interesting was that once I met Sir Paul McCartney, all of that went away and ... he brought everything down to a level that made it more real rather than surreal. And that was very helpful because in my mind he is one of the greatest legends of rock and roll.
The chance to perform with these guys for such a great cause is something really special, ... Hopefully, people will embrace it in the way it was intended. The song really does fit the sentiment and something special happened when we pulled it together.
Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.
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
Touring for two years is excruciating.
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