Quotes By Adam Jones

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

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

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

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

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

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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

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

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

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

I'm not a good guitar player.

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

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

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

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

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

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

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

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

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

The Melvins are grunge.

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

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 think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

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

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

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

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

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