Chino Moreno Quotes

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

I was the girl who was correcting people on the spelling of Led Zeppelin.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.