Adam Jones Quotes
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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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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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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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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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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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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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've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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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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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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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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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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The Melvins are grunge.
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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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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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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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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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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 use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.