Song Quotes by Danny Carey

Our crowds seem to keep growing whether we put out a record or not, so I feel very lucky to have that support.

— Danny Carey

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you…

— 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…

— Danny Carey

Tony Williams, Billy Cobham and Lenny White; some of those guys were big influences on me.

— Danny Carey

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

— 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

Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!

— Danny Carey

No one can be their best every night.

— Danny Carey

It takes us long for a reason, but the end result is: we all completely believe in, not just every verse, every chorus, every…

— Danny Carey

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

— Danny Carey

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

— Danny Carey

All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.

— Danny Carey

We toured for close to three years after 'Undertow' came out, so by the time we started to work on 'AEnima,' we had matured…

— 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