Adam Jones Quotes:- Adam Jones (born January 15, 1965) is an American musician and visual artist, best known as the guitarist for Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th-greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone and placed ninth in Guitar World’s Top 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. With experience in special effects and set design in the Hollywood film industry, Jones is also the director of the majority of Tool’s music videos.
Inspirational Adam Jones Quotes and Sayings
“Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.”
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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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“I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.”
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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 seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.”
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“My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.”
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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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“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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“I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.”
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“With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.”
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“The Melvins are grunge.”
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“I’ve always been involved in the visual arts and music.”
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“I like soundtracks and I like film.”
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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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Famous Quotes by 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.”
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“I’m not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.”
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“We’re more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.”
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“I’ve never worried about how long the song is.”
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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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“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 you were writing it.”
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“I’m not into solos, I’m into lyrics.”
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“I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.”
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“All the art for Tool is done by me and the band.”
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“Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.”
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“I’ve always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.”
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“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.”
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“Fine art is really something I want to get into.”
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Top 10 Quotes by Adam Jones
“That’s the thing I like about my sound. It’s really raw and very unsafe compared to a solid-state kind of sound.”
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“I haven’t listened to much music lately; I’ve been out of it.”
Adam Jones
“I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.”
Adam Jones
“I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, ‘There are only a few people that have this.’ I like to see that someone’s put a lot of labor into making something.”
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“I’m not a good guitar player.”
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.”
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“In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.”
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“I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.”
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.”
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“I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.”
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Best Adam Jones Quotes and Sayings
“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.”
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“If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it’s gonna sound like a lyric.”
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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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“As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.”
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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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“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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“We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.”
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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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