Danny Carey Quotes

Danny Carey

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 10, 1961

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

Danny Carey

Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.

Danny Carey

Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!

Danny Carey

We toured for close to three years after 'Undertow' came out, so by the time we started to work on 'AEnima,' we had matured as functional musicians, and that changes your sound completely. Once you have that kind of freedom, an idea will come into your head and you can do it justice.

Danny Carey

It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.

Danny Carey

Our crowds seem to keep growing whether we put out a record or not, so I feel very lucky to have that support.

Danny Carey

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

Danny Carey

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.

Danny Carey

We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.

Danny Carey

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

Danny Carey

We've always considered our music to be a healing process. It's our 'tool' to work things out with each other and try to communicate with each other and learn things. And it's good for everyone - us and our audience - to get together.

Danny Carey

I've been taking tabla lessons and they've helped expand my rhythmic horizons.

Danny Carey

We've never really been susceptible to pressure from anyone from the outside. We've been really good at negating any outside influences. We're really hard on ourselves. The filter that we put upon things qualifying to end up on a Tool record is pretty extreme, so we figure we've got that part of it under control.

Danny Carey

It seems like on every record we have this big, epic thing like 'Rosetta,' 'Wings For Marie' or 'Lateralus.'

Danny Carey

Those late '60s early '70s bands would take it really far out and get super-weird.

Danny Carey

Every record I've ever done with Tool has been on tape.

Danny Carey

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.

Danny Carey

The sincerity of delivery is what always strikes me when I hear a good band. It's artist-expression driven, as opposed to being record-producer driven. There's a huge difference. One's motivation is impure, while the other is the highest form of expression, so that's what you aim for.

Danny Carey