Words matter. These are the best Chino Moreno Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I see old friends, I’m very excited.
A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you’ve been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.
I have this natural want to… when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it’s too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.
I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you’ve pretty much heard the whole song, that’s kind of a bummer.
A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I’ve always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.
I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane’s Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I’m nervous about what I’m doing.
I don’t watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.
I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.
For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.
I’ve always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.
I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don’t want to talk about other bands.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it… The effect that it has had on people’s minds.
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
I love some electronic music. I’m not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.
