Maynard James Keenan Quotes

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

I actually was consciously trying to emulate bands like Bruce Springsteen, and just trying to emulate what they do structurally.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I'm just inspired by music.

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.