Adam Jones Quotes

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

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

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

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

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

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.

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

I studied film in high school and actually got a scholarship to go to film school. But I turned it down because I thought it would screw me up.

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

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

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

I played violin all the way up through my freshman year in high school, then I played a stand-up bass for three years in an orchestra.

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

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

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.

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

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don`t understand.

I`m not a good guitar player.

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

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

I haven`t listened to much music lately; I`ve been out of it.

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

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

I personally don`t like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

That`s what I love about our music - it`ll never be a hit because you can`t dance to it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I have Seymour Duncan pickups, and I can`t get the same sound with any other guitar, not even another Gibson, without that finish on it.

The Melvins are grunge.

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

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

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