Maynard James Keenan Quotes

My heart and soul is still music.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.

Music is something I can control.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

Artists need to express.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I can't imagine life without singing.

We don't make music - it makes us.

Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Composing is my life blood.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.