Adam Jones Quotes
"I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics."
- Adam Jones
"I've never worried about how long the song is."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Song)
"I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Love, Song)
"If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Fault)
"Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Time, Songs)
"My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Music, Songs)
"I'm not a good guitar player."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Guitar)
"That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Love, Music, Dance)
"I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Guitar)
"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
(Related: Money, Artists, Building, Company, Want)
"We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Meetings)
"We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Time, Effort, Song)
"We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits."
- Adam Jones
"When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Ending, Songs)
"With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Time, Perfection)
"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
(Related: Sound, State)
"As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge."
- Adam Jones
"I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Music)
"I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Movies, Music, Company)
"Doing the stereotypical solo bores me."
- Adam Jones
"If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Play, Sound)
"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
(Related: Music, Want)
"I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like."
- Adam Jones
"All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Art)
"I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Songs, Sound, Style)
"I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist."
- Adam Jones
"I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade."
- Adam Jones
"I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge."
- Adam Jones
"I think people like Steve Vai are so boring."
- Adam Jones
(Related: People)
"I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand."
- Adam Jones
(Related: People, Marketing)
"I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Custom)
"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Guitar)
"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Play, Wrong)
"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
(Related: People)