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Motivational Adam Jones Quotes and Sayings

Motivational Adam Jones Quotes and Sayings

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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Inspirational Adam Jones Quotes and Sayings

“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

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

“I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.”
Adam Jones

“I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.”
Adam Jones

“My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.”
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 what I love about our music – it’ll never be a hit because you can’t dance to it.”
Adam Jones

“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.”
Adam Jones

“The Melvins are grunge.”
Adam Jones

“I’ve always been involved in the visual arts and music.”
Adam Jones

“I like soundtracks and I like film.”
Adam Jones

“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.”
Adam Jones

“I’m not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.”
Adam Jones

“We’re more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.”
Adam Jones

“I’ve never worried about how long the song is.”
Adam Jones

“As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.”
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 you were writing it.”
Adam Jones

“I’m not into solos, I’m into lyrics.”
Adam Jones

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

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

“Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.”
Adam Jones

“I’ve always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.”
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

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

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.”
Adam Jones

“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.”
Adam Jones

“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.”
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

“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.”
Adam Jones

“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.”
Adam Jones

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

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

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

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

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