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Danny Carey
1961 • American • Musician
39
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Showing 39 quotesThe sincerity of delivery is what always strikes me when I hear a good band. It's artist-expression driven, as opposed to being record-producer driven. There's a huge difference. One's motivation is impure, while the other is the highest form of expression, so that's what you aim for.— Danny Carey
You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.— Danny Carey
It seems like on every record we have this big, epic thing like 'Rosetta,' 'Wings For Marie' or 'Lateralus.'— Danny Carey
We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.— Danny Carey
We've never really been susceptible to pressure from anyone from the outside. We've been really good at negating any outside influences. We're really hard on ourselves. The filter that we put upon things qualifying to end up on a Tool record is pretty extreme, so we figure we've got that part of it under control.— Danny Carey
I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.— Danny Carey
We've always considered our music to be a healing process. It's our 'tool' to work things out with each other and try to communicate with each other and learn things. And it's good for everyone - us and our audience - to get together.— Danny Carey
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.— Danny Carey
We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.— Danny Carey
It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.— Danny Carey
It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.— Danny Carey