“Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.”
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“After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.”
“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.”
“There's no religion but sex and music.”
“I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.”
“I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.”
“I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.”
“We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.”
“My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.”
“When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.”
“Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.”
“I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.”
“I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.”
“And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.”
“Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.”
“I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”
“I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.”
“I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.”
“I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.”
“So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.”
“I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.”
“Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.”
“Pop music is not a threatening style of music.”
“I know music is subjective.”