Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Cantrell

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter of rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle's grunge movement, and is known for its distinctive vocal style and the harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley. Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains' 1992 EP Sap. After Staley's death in 2002, Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains' lead singer on most of the songs from the band's post-Staley albums, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013) and Rainier Fog (2018), with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and singing Staley's vocals in the old songs in live concerts.

American - Musician | Born: March 18, 1966

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

Times change and you have to adapt.

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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

Jerry Cantrell

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. The album is an overview of birth to now.

Jerry Cantrell

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.

Jerry Cantrell

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Jerry Cantrell

I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but the few times we did spend together, you know, were times I'll always remember. You know, he was a really sweet guy, and a really genuine soul, you know, and an incredibly talented artist.

Jerry Cantrell

Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Cantrell

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