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Name: Chi Cheng Band: Deftones Position Bass Date Of Birth 15. July, 1970 Place Of Birth ? Sex Male Official Site: The Deftones Fan Site: 7 words Fan Site: Daves Deftones Fan Site: Deftones Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"We're allowed certain idiosyncrasies as musicians, so I become a little more eccentric by default. If I feel like wearing pajamas and bedroom slippers for a week straight, I'll just do it.


-"It's like who would have guessed???"


-"Normally we need a bunch of beer, we need to throw shit at each other and then have somebody leave practice pissed."


-"Hmmm. I don't know. A guy named Tom Brown Jr. studied under an Apache elder. instead of categorizing under one God-head, he saw that everyone was going to have their own interpretation of God and a sense of harmony. So, "The Almighty Spirit That Moves Through All Things" refers to the harmonious nature of whatever you chose to call God, as it moves through everything, even down through sub-atomics. The way Tom Brown summed it up was the best. He didn't have any prejudices when talking about The Spirit That Moves Through All Things. He wasn't' being judgmental. He was describing the harmonious, underlying thing, which kind of rolls everything together. Actually, I don't know what it means...I just want people to think I'm cool"


-"Just about everything really, although there was that time when I punched out the windshield of a car I was driving. I also tried to throw one of our techs out of the tour bus window when he attempted to put Def Leppard on the stereo. Another time I was messed up on mushrooms and I threw this monster sports bag across the room and it knocked this girl right off her chair. Boom! That thing was huge."


-"One time I took my bass, flung it, and it noticed it was outta tune, and I look over and i had knocked Chino out, I Laid him out. I've taken out every band member except Frank, and ill get Frank next, ill jump into the turntables."


-"I'm by far the smelliest motherfucker in any band. I've heard that the bassist from Corrosion Of Conformity is pretty smelly, but he can't be as bad as me. I fucking stink."


-"I look mad when I'm drunk, even if I'm not. My eyes get all googly and shit and I have this crazy scowl on my face. I look like a mean drunk.


-"I'm just happy that people dig the album and I would like a lot of kids to hear it. Our fans are kind of protective of us because they've had to find out the hard way about us and there's a feeling of not wanting to share it with other kids you may consider lugheads. They've got to realize that we want to bring the music to a bigger audience. We're not trying to be the biggest band in the world, we don't have any aspirations or cares about being that. But we definitely would like to have more kids into the music, more kids at the shows."


-"Maybe we have a different definition of heavy. Like anything Thelonious Monk does is heavier than Pantera to me"


          -Chi Cheng, Deftones, Bass & Vocals, 15. July, 1970