Danny Carey Quotes

Danny Carey

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 10, 1961

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

Danny Carey

I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.

Danny Carey

Anybody who digs your art, you what to share it with.

Danny Carey

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

Danny Carey

Tony Williams, Billy Cobham and Lenny White; some of those guys were big influences on me.

Danny Carey

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

Danny Carey

Pink Floyd and Yes and some of the old art-rock bands, you didn't know what they looked like. You were always looking for pictures, and that added to the mystique. It's much more interesting when you're forced to imagine or guess at these things because usually it's better than reality.

Danny Carey

Before 'AEnima,' we were just following our gut. There was a lot of anger in the air and we never tried to control that. But just as we mature as humans, with 'AEnima' we tried to be fueled more by spiritual ideas or more of a conscious mode of aiming things in the right place or trying to take more responsibility for our art.

Danny Carey

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

Danny Carey

Our fans are loyal as can be, that's for sure.

Danny Carey

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

Danny Carey

All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.

Danny Carey

No one can be their best every night.

Danny Carey

The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.

Danny Carey

Mike Patton and Dave Lombardo - those guys are a good, heavy influence.

Danny Carey

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

Danny Carey

There are no leftover Tool songs because of the process it takes to compose our songs - the way we hash it out in a room with all three or four of us, that there's tons of riffs and jams and things. But there's no put-together songs that are sitting in the eaves.

Danny Carey

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with intentions of being a song, and then all of a sudden the main riff of this song, six months later turns into a verse or a chorus of another song.

Danny Carey

It takes us long for a reason, but the end result is: we all completely believe in, not just every verse, every chorus, every bar is scrutinized, and that's the result of what you'll hear on this record.

Danny Carey

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

Danny Carey