Music Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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

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

You might win some, but you just lost one.

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

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.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"