Adam Jones Quotes

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

I never really followed grunge.

Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.

I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the 'Unplugged' album. It's so great.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Rock music is niche.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.