Adam Jones Quotes

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Adam Jones

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 15, 1965

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

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

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

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I'm not a good guitar player.

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

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

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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

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

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

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

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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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The Melvins are grunge.

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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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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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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

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

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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

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I've never worried about how long the song is.

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

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