Maynard James Keenan Quotes

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

I'm in this music duo called Moors.

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

I just want to keep writing music.

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Spirit is a band I really love.

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

I really love 'Mr. Rager.' I know the first album is incredible, but my favorite Kid Cudi album is the second one.

I like the guys in Cheap Trick. I like playing in it and the music we do.