Adam Jones Quotes

#1. I've never worried about how long the song is.

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#2. I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

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#3. That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

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#4. With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

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#5. I like soundtracks and I like film.

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#6. I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

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#7. I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

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#8. All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

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#9. I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

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#10. I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

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#11. But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

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#12. I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

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#13. When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

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#14. I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

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#15. There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

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#16. I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.

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#17. The Melvins are grunge.

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#18. My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

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#19. I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

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#20. We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

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#21. We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

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#22. That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

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#23. Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

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#24. I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

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#25. I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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#26. I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

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#27. When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

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#28. I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

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#29. I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

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#30. I'm not a good guitar player.

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#31. In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

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#32. Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

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#33. I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

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#34. Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

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#35. We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

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#36. I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

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#37. As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

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#38. I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

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#39. As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

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#40. If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

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#41. I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

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#42. If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

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#43. We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

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#44. Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

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#45. Fine art is really something I want to get into.

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