top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I always knew that I wanted to be an artist."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Artist quotes
"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best."
"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
Explore more quotes by Maynard James Keenan
"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."
"Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them."
"I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour."
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."
"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."
bottom of page