Chino Quotes & Sayings

There's so many gay rappers ...
They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one. — Chino XL

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. — Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15. — Chino Moreno

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make. — Chino Moreno

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well. — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty. — John Darnielle

For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy. — Chino Moreno

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism. — Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that. — Chino Moreno

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough. — Sam Shepard

I have this dream where Little Chino keeps showing up at my door. I would have to kill him even though I was at home trying to have a nice meal with my family. Every time he (Chino) would come to the door, I'm like, 'you again!' But I was myself (not Dexter) in the dream. I'm rolling my eyes in the dream because it is so absurd. It was like, this is ridiculous because you (Chino) are not even real! — Michael C. Hall

The Butcherettes are led by a female singer, and they're sort of wild. — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

I went to see Mogwai at the Fillmore, and that was both the loudest and quietest concert I've ever been to. — Chino Moreno

I stared at Buddy while he unzipped his chino pants and took them off and laid them on a chair and then took off his underpants that were made of something like nylon fishnet.
"They're cool," he explained, "and my mother says they wash easily."
Then he just stood there in front of me and I kept on staring at him. The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed. Buddy seemed hurt I didn't say anything. — Sylvia Plath

I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!" — Chino XL

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage. — Chino XL

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. — Chino Moreno

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano. — Megan McCafferty

As Korn go on, it's the same things - bad childhoods and mean moms. It gets too old after a while. How old is Jonathan? Thirty? How long has it been since he lived with his parents? — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting,
My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine.
Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams. — Chino XL

We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving to create some perfect thing. We must simply start with accepting ourselves. Sitting brings us back to actually who and where we are. This can be very painful. Self-acceptance is the hardest thing to do. If we can't accept ourselves, we are living in ignorance, this darkest night. We may still be awake, but we don't know where we are. We cannot see. The mind has no light. Practice is this candle in our very darkest room. — Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands. — Chino Moreno

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers! — Allen Ginsberg

No matter how hard it gets, I'd rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss — Chino XL

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records. — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

Deftones is always my main focus. I've been doing it the longest and it's definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It's not like I'm unfulfilled with a need to find another outlet. I look at it as making music with my friends, and I'm blessed that they're great musicians. — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression. — Chino Moreno

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that. — Mads Mikkelsen

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music. — Chino Moreno

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma,
Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen.
Question mark, you pregnant?
Oh you're not? I love you, period. — Chino XL

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music. — Chino Moreno

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. — Chino Moreno

It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy. — Chino Moreno

When I see old friends, I'm very excited. — Chino Moreno

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while. — Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

I make chicks consider themselves widows whose husbands ain't even died yet. — Chino XL

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music. — Chino Moreno

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?
The student replied: "Everything!
Kobun, paused, then said: "No, you". — Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind. — Chino Moreno

Old Korn records had so much intensity. — Chino Moreno

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to. — Chino Moreno

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! — Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there. — Chino Moreno

Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency. — Chino XL