Adam Jones Quotes

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not a good guitar player.

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.

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

I like soundtracks and I like film.

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

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

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.

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