I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff. — Justin Chancellor Beethoven Copy Share Image
There's a vulnerability to our music that attracts people. — Justin Chancellor Attracts Copy Share Image
It's not like people are going to be reading about us every day in the magazines. — Justin Chancellor Day Copy Share Image
When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life. — Justin Chancellor Getting older Copy Share Image
You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically. — Justin Chancellor Help Copy Share Image
Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been… — Justin Chancellor Alchemy Copy Share Image
We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it,… — Justin Chancellor Lock Copy Share Image
The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the… — Justin Chancellor Electronic music Copy Share Image
My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us. — Justin Chancellor Catholic Copy Share Image
We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special. — Justin Chancellor Band Copy Share Image
As you grow older, you want to learn, you want to change, you want to evolve and you don't want to live… — Justin Chancellor Change Copy Share Image
You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what… — Justin Chancellor Brave Copy Share Image
Writing is a grueling process for us, and once we finish an album, we go on tour for a couple of years.… — Justin Chancellor Business Copy Share Image
It's very rare that we play a gig and we all come off and say 'That was great, I had a great… — Justin Chancellor Achieve Copy Share Image
I'm still like a little kid about it, where I'm just so happy and excited that people want to come to our… — Justin Chancellor Band Copy Share Image
I don't know what I did to my main bass. I've poured makeup into it, I've bashed it around - and we've… — Justin Chancellor Amazing Copy Share Image
Anything you spend a long time on, of course it would be nice if everyone likes it. But I think the strength… — Justin Chancellor Be nice Copy Share Image
Maybe you have a particular type of sound you want to go for, but if you really want to be original, there's… — Justin Chancellor Come Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed to say it, but I watch YouTube videos of our live shows, wondering if it actually sounded the way it… — Justin Chancellor Anxiety Copy Share Image
We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest… — Justin Chancellor Around Copy Share Image
We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us,… — Justin Chancellor Biggest fear Copy Share Image
Every time we record, and every time we go out live, we try and beat what we've already done. — Justin Chancellor Beat Copy Share Image
I think that's an idea that's always appealed to us - to let something go where it wants to. — Justin Chancellor Always Copy Share Image
Playing '10,000 Days' in concert was very challenging but infinitely rewarding. It's much more sensitive and emotional than our other songs, and… — Justin Chancellor Being Copy Share Image
If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in… — Justin Chancellor Believe Copy Share Image
If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want… — Justin Chancellor Bass Copy Share Image
In the end, our way of writing music is a long process of experimentation. We enjoy the luxury of taking this very… — Justin Chancellor End Copy Share Image
It's okay to be inspired by other people and it can be a useful learning tool to play other people's music, but… — Justin Chancellor Inspiration Copy Share Image
The whole thing about Tool is that it kind of feeds on itself. If it's going, it's going. If it's at a… — Justin Chancellor Business Copy Share Image
I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a… — Justin Chancellor Bass Copy Share Image
The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract… — Justin Chancellor Art Copy Share Image
I was living in London with my brother, and he was a friend of Matt Marshall, who signed Tool. So we were… — Justin Chancellor Brother Copy Share Image
