Adam Jones Quotes & Sayings

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

Fine art is really something I want to get into. — Adam Jones

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge. — Adam Jones

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

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

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. — Adam Jones

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

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

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. — Adam Jones

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. — Adam Jones

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

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring. — Adam Jones

I'm not a good guitar player. — Adam Jones

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

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

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

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. — Adam Jones

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

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

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

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom. — Adam Jones

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

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

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

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

I like soundtracks and I like film. — Adam Jones

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

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

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

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

The Melvins are grunge. — Adam Jones

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics. — Adam Jones

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

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. — Adam Jones

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

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. — Adam Jones

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

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

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

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

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. — Adam Jones

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me. — Adam Jones

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

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

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