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34 Legendary Linkin Park Quotes For Success
They used elements across multiple genres to create an original sound and one of the most successful acts of the 21st century. Linkin Park’s aggressive metal and beat-driven hip hop continued to evolve as their popularity reached its peak through success driven artists loved by millions.
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Their current lineup comprises founding members vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon. While they’re categorized as alternative rock, the groups earlier music was a fusion of heavy metal and hip hip before a transition to electronica and pop combined.
The band formed in 1996 and rose to fame with their debut studio album Hybrid Theory in 2000. It became certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. Their second album Meteora came in 2003 with continued success, before they changed their sound in 2007 on third album Minutes to Midnight.
Linkin Park continued to explore their capability, adding electronic sounds to their fourth album A Thousand Suns in 2010. In 2012, they released their fifth album Living Things which was a combination of musical tones from all their previous albums. In 2014, they returned to heavy rock in sixth album The Hunting Party.
Their seventh album One More Light came in 2017 and was their first with a pop-focused sound. That same year, the group lost vocalist Chester Bennington, aged 41. Linkin Park took a hiatus before returning to the studio in 2020 with new music.
Today, they remain among the best-selling bands of the 21st century, and the world’s best-selling music artists with over 100 million records sold worldwide. They have won two Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, 10 MTV Europe Music Awards and three World Music Awards.
Since their loss, the band’s music today has helped others get through all kinds of tough times; depression, loneliness, pain, sadness, anger. No doubt they know a thing or two about success, even through the hard times where life seems unfair.
1. Everything you say to me takes me one step closer to the edge, and I’m about to break.
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2. Time won’t heal this damage anymore. Don’t turn your back on me, I won’t be ignored.
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3. Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away!
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4. The hardest part of ending is starting again.
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5. I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
Chester Bennington
6. I’m become so numb, I can’t feel you there. I’ve become so tired, so much more aware. I’m becoming this, all I want to do, is be more like me, and be less like you.
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7. I felt this way before… So insecure..
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8. I’ll face myself to cross out what I’ve become, erase myself, and let go of what I’ve done.
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9. Even those who never frown, eventually break down.
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10. I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress, handful of anger, held in my chest.
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11. Things aren’t the way they were before, you wouldn’t even recognize me anymore. Not that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end.
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12. Sometimes beginnings aren’t so simple, sometimes goodbye’s the only way.
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13. Sometimes solutions aren’t so simple; sometimes goodbye’s the only way.
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14. Your guilty all the same. Too sick to be ashamed. You want to point the finger, but there’s no one else to blame.
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15. God bless us everyone, we’re broken people living under a loaded gun.
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16. I’m tired of being what you want me to be, feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don’t know what you’re expecting of me, put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.
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17. When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done. Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed.
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18. I want to find something I’ve wanted all along, Somewhere I belong.
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19. I’m strong on the surface, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.
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20. I know I’ll never trust a single thing you say. You knew your lies would divide us, but you lied anyway. And all the lies have got you floating up above us all. But what goes up has got to fall…
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21. All I want to do, is be more like me, and less like you.
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22. It’s easier to run, Replacing this pain with something numb, It’s so much easier to go, Than face all this pain here all alone.
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23. It’s harder starting over, than never to have changed.
24. Memories consume, like opening the wound, I’m picking me apart again. You all assume, I’m safe here in my room, unless I try to start again.
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25. You can’t be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.
Chester Bennington
26. Tried to give you warning, but everyone ignores me. Told you everything loud and clear, but nobody’s listening.
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27. The very worst part of you is me.
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28. The sun doesn’t give light to the moon, assuming the moon’s gonna owe it one.
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29. Sometimes I remember the darkness of my past, bringing back these memories I wish I didn’t have.
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30. Do I trust some, and get fooled by phoniness, or do I trust no one and live in loneliness?
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31. Against my will I stand beside my own reflection.
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32. Take me down to the river bend, take me down to the fighting end. Wash the poison from off my skin, and show me how to be whole again.
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33. Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It’s out of my control.
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34. I tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end, it doesn’t even matter. I had to fall to lose it all, but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.
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