Charlie Benante Quotes

#1. Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior.

Carol Lee

#2. So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies.They have those beards and tight jeans and to me they all look so fake.

Charlie Benante

#3. Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

J.J. Abrams

#4. I'd have to say that the 1994 Woodstock completely destroyed anything that came after it.

Charlie Benante

#5. I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do.

Charlie Benante

#6. Life is unpredictable and it doesn't follow a map.

Autumn Doughton

#7. If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.

Charlie Benante

#8. I just find it really shitty that someone who never really produced anything, musically speaking, can just say, "I don't really like it." It just sucks because you put so much work into a record and someone disapproves."

Charlie Benante

#9. The Bring the Noise buzz was so strong, so we put it out on a release called 'Attack of the Killer B's' which was a record made up of B-sides and things like that - so it wasn't out on our new album, you know what I mean? But we always felt strongly about it.

Charlie Benante

#10. The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

Craig T. Nelson

#11. We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet.

Charlie Benante

#12. I am not supporting Donald Trump. I think he does this country such a disservice. And I'm gonna leave it there.

Nia Long

#13. Mostly every shirt and cover you see has come from my mind.

Charlie Benante

#14. I know that's how things have gotten, but I appreciate to listen to it the way it was intended to be listened to. The way the intro to the record starts. I just want you to stare at the cover, get absorbed in the whole vibe and let it take you on that journey.

Charlie Benante

#15. The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

Charlie Benante

#16. I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

Charlie Benante

#17. I've been obsessed with The Beatles since I was two.

Charlie Benante

#18. Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.

Charlie Benante

#19. I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Taylor Swift

#20. That's why I think it hurt us, whereas these other bands [I'm assuming he means the other Big 3 -Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica] they kept doing their thing, just METAL. METAL. METAL. METAL. We didn't do that, we took a little but of a turn.

Charlie Benante

#21. Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

Stephen Jay Gould

#22. I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!

Tabitha Suzuma

#23. My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.

Charlie Benante

#24. I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.

Charlie Benante

#25. Every time we have been drunk on Jager it's been - either we didn't remember or it's been insane.

Charlie Benante

#26. God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: " The righteous will live by faith." Romans 1:17

Beth Moore

#27. Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Richard Paul Evans

#28. There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#29. In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

Thomas A. Stewart

#30. I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#31. I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.

Charlie Benante

#32. We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

Charlie Benante