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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share
I love good momentum. It makes everybody happy and in this time that we're living in, especially musically speaking, if you can make a record that has more than 4 or 5 songs deep and it has a good variety of songs. You don't frontload it with those first couple of songs. You continue the record taking the listener on… — Charlie Benante Copy Share
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
Every time we have been drunk on Jager it's been - either we didn't remember or it's been insane. — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Charlie Benante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4e/charlie-benante-19642_assuming_that-s-why-i-think-it-hurt-us-whereas-th_1359400.jpg)
