Brock from 36 Crazyfists, from Kerrang! magazine
Kerrang: Your debut album, 'Bitterness the Star', is a hard edged affair. Have you consciously avoided making a pop-metal album a la linkin park and P.O.D?
Brock: "We consciously avoided being anything predictable. Those bands are all good at what they do but they seem like they've been cookie-cuttered out and we don't want to be like that. We're pretty funny about that. If we have a riff that sounds like something similar to one of those bands we're really anal about it and steer clear of it - even if it sounds good. We don't want to be a part of all that."

Chris from 3 Doors Down, from NYRock
Chris: "...And the rap-rock stuff is great, I love it. It's really aggressive. But you heard one, you heard 'em all, in my opinion. And when we were writing the music [to The Better Life], I thought it was great stuff and everybody around me seemed to like it. Now you got bands like Linkin Park that mix the two, they rap for a little while and they have melody as well."
NYRock: and you guys like that mixing?
Chris: "Oh, I love it. I love it. It gives you the aggressive part and the melodic part at the same time."

40 Below Summer, from pittrockmag.com
Max: "I can’t say anything really pisses me off, there’s a diversity, there are bands I don’t like, bands I do like but the bands I don’t like, that’s just a matter of opinion, and my opinion is just like anyone else’s, it matters about as much as a cup of coffee so, who gives a shit? Whether I fuckin’ love Slipknot or hate Slipknot, they’re still selling a million records, whether I love Linkin Park or hate Linkin Park, those are two ends of the spectrum of metal music, they’re selling 10 million records ya’know what I mean? Whether I love System, ya’know ‘cause they’re all weird and off to the side, and they do their own System thing or I hate them, they’re selling records, and all those bands are good in their own way, they’re just not, ya’know, us we do our thing our way they do their thing their way. Ya’know, and I’m not going to say anyone of those bands is bad because they’re not, they can all play their instruments, and they can all do their parts well. And as far as Slipknot, you know we love them, that’s the whole reason why we’re here where we are, ya’know it’s pretty much because of Slipknot so I mean when I first head their record I was blown away.

Adema
Marky in the June 2002 issue of Metal Hammer:
"What I think Linkin Park do well is that I think they touch on all the things that people can relate to in their songs. What I often say on stage it's great to see large crowds of people having fun together 'cos there's a lot of fucked up shit going on in the world. I think parents who are scared of this music are fools because their kids could be doing a lot worse by coming to on Adema show or a Linkin Park show or a Korn show. You'd rather have your kids at a concert that on the streets than doing dumb ass shit."
Kris in Rock Sound Magazine talking about his 13 year old daughter ('03):
"Her favorite band is Linkin Park. It's been very convenient for her that we've been touring with them, but lately I haven't allowed her to come to as many gigs because she's been getting into too much trouble."

Alicia Keys
At the Grammy's Alicia Keys said that she "Loves Linkin Park" when asked about the other BEST NEW ARTIST nominees.

Alien Ant Farm
Question: You haven't played any pranks on Linkin Park yet?
Tye: "Nah, not yet. You could see how easy it would be to get kicked off the tour. They're like really strict. It's cool though cause like the singer, he hangs out with us a lot, Chester, always on stage when we play, always hanging out, he's like the only one in the group that drinks, he hangs out and he'll drink with us, he's really a cool guy."

Beautiful Creatures
Taken from their tour journal (Tinley Park, IL June 7th-8th, 2001 By Anthony Focx) "After lunch, we ventured out to watch some of the other bands on the bill, I personally watched Union Underground and Disturbed on stage 2nd, then walked to main stage to try and see some of Linkin Park. As I walked up, I heard the echoing sounds of their 2nd single "Crawling" as I reached the sound board (which took about 10 min.) they kicked into their big hit "One Step Closer To The Edge" and the crowd lost it. They Rocked! I also had a chance to see Papa Roach and Slipknot, Thought they were very cool."

Blink 182
Tom, after winning a Much Music Video Award over Linkin Park: "I can see why we won over Linkin Park and Creed because we're a better band."

Chevelle
This is not a direct quote but with the help of Jinxx it is pretty close. Chevelle opened for Adema at the Birch Hill, NJ this year (2002) and Joe Loeffler saw Sal's linkin park tattoos. (Sal is on the Fan Tattoo pg) He then made a comment similar to "Is that Linkin Park on your arm? Who's on your other arm, n*sync?" Needless to say the guy was an asshole.

Crazy Town
Question from some interview: What new music are you into now?
Seth: "One Minute Silence, (I love that band), Linkin Park, Chester’s Our Boy, it’s all basically the same shit. I love Nine Inch Nails too....."

Deadsy
Question from Deadsy.com: What was it like playing on the Family Values tour?
Elijah Blue Allman: "It was a trial by fire. It was really nice to be in that environment because you are brought to another standard. Those guys are obviously serious professionals, everyone of those guys, especially Static-X and Linkin Park. I just learned a lot and took it all in"

Def Leppard
Joe Elliot From Defleppard.com:
"...my favorite song of all time is Mott The Hoople's ALL THE YOUNG DUDES. Written by David Bowie. Mott being around for a long time, never had a hit, Bowie writes a song for them, and they become huge! That never bothered any of their fans, it certainly never bothered ME. So that would be a yardstick for me, to like, not give a shit; MY favorite song was written FOR somebody BY somebody else. It will be recognizable as Def Leppard, the same way that Limp Bizkit is recognizable to Limp Bizkit fans. Or Linkin Park are to Linkin Park fans, or Marilyn Manson to his fans . It changes a bit..... It moves on..... But it still has a recognizable sound. No artist should be embarrassed to be recognizable as himself, cause that's the reason to do it in the first place! I get annoyed when I hear artist act like "Ok, I've made this thing now, and now I have to make something that sounds nothing like what made me popular."

Deftones
1. Chino from Rock Sound Magazine when asked [what made doing this tour special for you?]:
"I think this time with the support acts we've got two younger bands, Taproot and Linkin Park, who are really cool cos if you bring out older bands... like with Incubus even, I think they're a little bit younger than us but they still function like an older band, you know? They're kinda set in their ways. I think of the life of these young people out with us, sparking us up; I'm hoping this tour's going to be insane, back like our first tour where anything could happen. Otherwise it gets boring."
2. Abe in responce to PRP interview that asked: How does it feel to have Linkin Park support you despite the fact they are more commercially successful right now?
"I think its funny. I couldn't give a shit. They have never been over here before. Linkin Park are a band that you either love or hate and they got a lot of shit."
3. Chino in responce to this question: [Why would you support Limp Bizkit in the UK?]:
"I look at it like we are playing a show. People don't admit they like Limp Bizkit, I said something to the crowd last night (in Manchester) about Limp Bizkit and everyone stated booing. But I know for a fact that all those kids would go to see Limp Bizkit play, and they probably own a Limp Bizkit album, they have to - why do they sell so many records....I don't dislike Limp Bizkit's music, the same way with Linkin Park, it's very formulated and predictable and I think it's good for what it is. It's like a party youthful record, and I look at it like that."
4. Chi Cheng in Micstand Magazine, 2001 issue
Micstand: On a recent episode of MTV’s Cribs I actually saw Steph at the home of Chester from Linkin Park. Are all of you guys friends with Linkin Park?
CHI: "Yeah, we’re all friends with Linkin Park. I mean, Stephen lives in LA and the rest of us live in Sacramento, so he’s a little closer on the scene than the rest of us. How was Chester’s house was it cool?"
Micstand: Yeah, it was cool, but on the same episode they featured the construction of the Osbourne’s new home and obviously nothing can hold a candle to that it was just sic.
CHI: "I’m sure that was totally off the hook."
5. Chino, from Revolver Magazine (8/03) about opening for Summer Sanitarium:
"A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!"

Disturbed
Question from Metal-is:There has been an accusation that certain bands in the nu-metal scene, such as Linkin Park, are manufactured, and therefore no better than the boy bands most of us detest.
Dan Donegan: "I think Linkin Park are great(laughs). There aren't a lot of two-vocalist bands that I like, but I think Linkin Park are really good. We've done a few shows with them, and they're a really great band and really nice people. Their album "Hybrid Theory" is one of my favorites out at the moment. Sure, I like aggressive stuff, but Linkin Park are a great band, and the vocalist can sing and I like that in a vocalist."

Dreaming
The singer for Dreaming, who used to be the singer for Stabbing Westward, said Linkin Park was one of his biggest musical influences on the FAQ section of his website: thedreamingonline.com.

Evanescence
Amy Lee in 6/14/03 issue of Kerrang! about the accusation of sounding like Linkin Park:
"Hmmm...Well, I wouldn't call it an accusation because Linkin Park is a very good band.  But we do hear that comparison a lot."
Ben: "We only have one song that sounds like Linkin Park."

Godsmack, from Launch:
Sully, about Linkin Park's Grammy nominations: "I'll tell you who I'm really happy for as young as they are and doing as well as they are is Linkin Park, I think their stuff is really good. At first it took me a second to get what they were doing, but I think they pulled it off in a really clever way considering this rap-rock thing has kind of been on its way out. I think they do it really well, and I'm excited for them. There's a lot of new bands coming up and doing some amazing things and that's just one band I've noticed I think is doing a great job."

Good Charlotte:
Billy: "I just bought the new Linkin Park album, I think those guys are really good"
Quote # 2, by Joel: "Linkin Park is really the only Nu Metal group that I listen to."

Goo Goo Dolls
On Much Music's Celebrity Tastemaker Johnny (lead singer) said that he really likes Linkin Park and P.O.D because out of all other bands they seem to be doing a lot and they have a lot of potential.

Headstrong
From Prick Magazine: "We did try to avoid the whole rap-rock stigma. Even though it's popular right now, it's a dirty term. It's got no credibility to it even though, you know, Linkin Park's doing fine and they're a rap-rock band."

Ill Nino
Dave in responce to an interview on Roadrunnerrecords.co.uk about his inspirations in starting the band and main influences: "I started the band because it was the right time for me to start a band, instead of playing drums for someone else. I also like Slipknot, and a lot of other bands like Linkin Park, Zombie, and older bands like Queen and old Metallica."

Jurassic 5
Chali 2na, about working on frgt/10 for Reanimation: "When me and Mike was vibing at his crib, man, on that song, I really got a full-fledged appreciation for how he sees hip-hop, man. You know what I'm saying? Just looking at the structure, how it's made. The rappers that he thought to use. I mean, I thought that, it took, it took balls man. And it took knowledge of what's actually going on with some good music."

Korn
Jonathan Davis, from Alternative Press:
After hearing a rough remix of Marilyn Manson's new album and Linkin Park's remix album he would dearly like to see a tour with Korn, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson and (Hed) Pe but he couldn't see it happening for whatever reason.
Fieldy, from Revolver Magazine:
"I'm not hating on Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit, because we can't do this alone, but we've been doin this shit for 10 years, when those bands came out selling 7 million records, it was like 'What about us?' We've paved the way for all these guys and its finally our time to sell some records. A lot of these other bands just had to scream to sell a million records. We had to bust our asses for a decade"

Lacuna Coil
Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil lists Linkin Park as one of her favorites bands on their official website: lacunacoil.it.

Led Zeppelin, from kerrang.com:
Kerrang.com:The single Morning Dew is an old song you've re recorded, why did you feel it was relevant now?
RP: "It was written in 1962 and it's just a beautiful song. It's about the Holocaust, it talks about being mis-informed . It's a beautiful vignette I've carried with me and it's just popular entertainment. Like Linkin Park or Creed, it's commercial but responsible at the same time. I'm an old guy I've been around a long time and I know how to do music with soul not just make cash."
Kerrang.com: Do you like Linkin Park or Creed then?
RP: "They're popular at the moment but there's room for a lot of music. The most immediate way to the soul isn't necessarily that form of power, it can be lyrics also. I wrote the lyrics to Kashmir, Stairway To Heaven and Black Dog and we had many different sides to Zep not just the hard core. You know, you can do damage with velvet as well as steel, you can caress with steel or bludgeon with velvet it's just projection really."
Kerrang.com: Are people just bored of manufactured bands now?
RP: "Maybe but how can we tell? The record labels that subsidise Kerrang! still put in adverts for Linkin Park, so that's just hype and money. All wheels within wheels. I mean Linkin Park aren't offensive and are only about as relevant as Rainbow were in Zeps day. It's just anthems for the day I suppose. The difference is Zep could do 15 minute songs and today is quite formulaic, I mean can you imagine a rhythm section playing quietly for ten minutes while someone tells you a story about Mud Sharks?"

Liam Lynch on 'Somewhere I Belong', from Ziazine!:
" I know this group is deep and percieved as intense by their fans but the truth is this song bugs me a little. I guess it's not their fault. I'm just bothered by bands like this with this typical song formula. Heavy compressed guitar riff rapping about being crazy from alienation you feel and how the world doesn't understand, scream-singing a chorus, then back into the rap. It's so tired. How many of these songs are there? It's so lame to one of those rap-rock goups. It's like 'See, everyone can be like us b/c the versus are rap BUT our chorus parts are rock.' These songs don't try to help people unless you consider empathy as therapy. I think they keep teens in a bad mood. Every single person on earth  suffers from feeling alone. It's because there is only one soul per body. Making music videos that look like depressed Asia or Toto album covers doesn't help either."

Limp Bizkit
Wes Borland, About rap-rock bands, in Kerrang mag:
"It's so boring now, I don't really like a lot of music that's out right now. I feel partially responsible for that. We've influenced a lot of bands that I think are terrible. It's just like, c'mon - Linkin Park? Crazy Town? I just want to stab my eyeball out with a screwdriver. I've completely stopped watching MTV or M2. It's disgusting."
* Just a note, Since that comment, Wes has supposedly retracted his statement or apologized for judging Linkin Park too quickly (and before actually seeing them live in concert).
Fred Durst, more recently on MTV said:
"I like Linkin Park" (He also said he thought 'crawling" was a good song).

Marilyn Manson
"Bands like Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, they are, in a sense, a scarier version of the the boy bands. For the really rowdy 12-year-old girls."
* note * Marilyn Manson remixed Linkin Park's song 'By Myself' which was released as a b-side to Reanimation.

Metallica
James in Rock Sound about touring with Linkin Park on Summer Sanitarium: "I wasn't particularly jumping for joy over Linkin Park, but they are good at what they do."

Mogwai
Braithwaite in Kerrang: "I hate Linkin Park, to me it sounds like really bad Depeche Mode with downtuned guitars over the top."