Adam Jones Quotes

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

My mom and sisters liked to sing and we would jam at home very often. I would also jam a lot in college, where I formed a fusion band and played the keyboards.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I'm an interpreter of music.

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.