Quotes by Adam Jones

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