Adam Jones Quotes (35 Quotes)


    I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

    I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

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

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

    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.

    Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

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

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

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

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

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

    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.

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

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

    I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies.

    If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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