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