Charlie Benante Quotes

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If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

Charlie Benante

Inspiration, Inspire, Trying

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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

Inspiration, Inspire, Together

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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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. 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

Hurt, Thinking, People

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I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

Charlie Benante

Thinking, Important, Trying

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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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

Tattoo, Running, Two

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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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

Opinion, Internet, Online

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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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

Hate, Fans, Pieces

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I just went into my studio and started to compile stuff. I was so happy with what was coming out that good momentum just carried over and when I would listen back to some of the riffs and some of the ideas, I was completely happy because I felt like, "wow, this was a breakthrough!" The ideas and the songs were really strong and I couldn't wait to show everybody the stuff.

Charlie Benante

Song, Strong, Ideas

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about, but I think those that are extremists, the way they are taught or the way, as I'd like to say, "brain-washed." they're not of sound mind, They're of a different mind.

Charlie Benante

Thinking, Brain, Mind

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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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

Thinking, Afterlife, Wake Up

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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

Mean, Band, Favourite

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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

Charlie Benante

Woodstock, Destroyed

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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

Charlie Benante

Two, Obsessed

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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I had demos that I'd send out of the songs and I'd get, "Great, can't wait to get in a room and actually play this and work on the album." So, it was good all-around because they knew even though I wasn't with them for some of the shows, I was being productive, which was really important because I didn't want to just sit on my ass. Once I was able to use my hand again, I would go right into it.

Charlie Benante

Song, Hands, Play

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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

Hurt, Thinking, Afterlife

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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

Journey, Appreciate, Records

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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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

Doctors, Done, Problem

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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I struggled with carpal tunnel for about 15 years to the point where I was going anywhere from acupuncture to chiropractor to actually getting a shot or two of cortisone to dipping my hand in a bucket of ice water during a show to buying a can of air. You turn it upside down and spray it on your wrist to get the frozen aspect of it and hopefully it wakes your hand up so I could get the feeling back in my hand.

Charlie Benante

Tunnels, Ice Water, Air

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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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

Records

Source: www.alternativenation.net

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

Charlie Benante

Rap, Fans, Form

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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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

Strong, Mean, Buzz

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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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

Dresses, Flannels, Band

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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

Charlie Benante

Over You, Mind, Shirts

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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

Charlie Benante

Drunk, Insane, Remember

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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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

Emo, Jeans, Fake

Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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"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. 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,

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