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