Maynard James Keenan Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Maynard James Keenan Quotes and Sayings
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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
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A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
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Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
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After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
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Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
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Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
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Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
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For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
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I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
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I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
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I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
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I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.
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I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
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I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
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I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
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I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
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I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
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I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
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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.
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If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
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Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
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Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
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Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
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The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
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There is still a future with music, because people want music.
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There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
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We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
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We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
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