Music Quotes

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What's the difference?

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

You might win some, but you just lost one.