Jerry Cantrell Quotes

#1. Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

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#2. Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

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#3. I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

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#4. Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

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#5. You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

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#6. That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

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#7. And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

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#8. I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

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#9. I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

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#10. In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

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#11. One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

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#12. I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

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#13. Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

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#14. I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

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#15. Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

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#16. There's not a word that describes us. We're not alternative, metal or grunge - we're not any of that. We're just what we are.

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#17. Times change and you have to adapt.

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#18. To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

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#19. Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

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#20. Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

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#21. Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

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#22. Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

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#23. I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

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