Top 30 Adam Jones Quotes

If you’re making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

I’ve always been involved in the visual arts and music.

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.

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

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

The Melvins are grunge.

I’ve always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

That’s what I love about our music – it’ll never be a hit because you can’t dance to it.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, ‘There’s only a few people that have this.’ I like to see that someone’s put a lot of labor into making something.

I’m not a good guitar player.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

I haven’t listened to much music lately; I’ve been out of it.

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

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

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

I’m not into solos, I’m into lyrics.

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.

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

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

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

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.

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.