Chino Moreno Quotes

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

Give metal a chance!

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I opted out of the band.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

I like Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch, with whom I did a single.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band and our own radio show, and that's what was popular.