Adam Jones Quotes

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write.

I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

I don't like to write the same song twice.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.