Zitat des Tages von Adam Jones:
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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.
But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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'm not a good guitar player.
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Fine art is really something I want to get into.
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
The Melvins are grunge.
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
I've never worried about how long the song is.
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.