Quotes By Adam Jones

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

I'm not a good guitar player.

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

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

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

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

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 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.

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

The Melvins are grunge.

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

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.

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.

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.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.

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

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

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

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

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.