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People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.
— Maynard James Keenan
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
— Maynard James Keenan
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
— Maynard James Keenan
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
— Maynard James Keenan
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
— Maynard James Keenan
102. Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.
— Maynard James Keenan
94. Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.
— Maynard James Keenan
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
— Maynard James Keenan
Finding beauty in the dissonance
— Maynard James Keenan
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What's the difference?
— Maynard James Keenan
At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.
— Maynard James Keenan
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
— Maynard James Keenan
Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life.Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies. — Maynard James Keenan
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
— Maynard James Keenan
112. I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.
— Maynard James Keenan
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
— Maynard James Keenan
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.
— Maynard James Keenan
101. I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.
— Maynard James Keenan
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
— Maynard James Keenan
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
— Maynard James Keenan
One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
— Maynard James Keenan
Life feeds on life ... feeds on life feeds on life ... this is neccesary ... this is necessary life feeds on life ... feeds on life
— Maynard James Keenan
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
— Maynard James Keenan
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
— Maynard James Keenan
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
— Maynard James Keenan
You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
— Maynard James Keenan
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
— Maynard James Keenan
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
— Maynard James Keenan
I've always had an affinity for growing things.
— Maynard James Keenan
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
— Maynard James Keenan
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
— Maynard James Keenan
Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.
— Maynard James Keenan
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.
— Maynard James Keenan
We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
— Maynard James Keenan
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
— Maynard James Keenan
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
— Maynard James Keenan
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
— Maynard James Keenan
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.
— Maynard James Keenan
Seems like Ive been here before.Seems so familiar.
Seems like Im slipping
into a dream within a dream. — Maynard James Keenan
There is still a future with music, because people want music.
— Maynard James Keenan
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
— Maynard James Keenan
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.
— Maynard James Keenan
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
— Maynard James Keenan
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
— Maynard James Keenan
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.
— Maynard James Keenan
89. If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.
— Maynard James Keenan
Sure, I love fairy tales.
— Maynard James Keenan
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
— Maynard James Keenan
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
— Maynard James Keenan
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
— Maynard James Keenan
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
— Maynard James Keenan
Cold silence has a tendency toatrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan
108. You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.
— Maynard James Keenan
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
— Maynard James Keenan
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
— Maynard James Keenan
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
— Maynard James Keenan
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
— Maynard James Keenan
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
— Maynard James Keenan
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
— Maynard James Keenan
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
— Maynard James Keenan
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
— Maynard James Keenan
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.
— Maynard James Keenan
People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.
— Maynard James Keenan
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
— Maynard James Keenan
Do unto others what has been done to you,
— Maynard James Keenan
Knuckle deep inside the borderline.This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away. — Maynard James Keenan
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
— Maynard James Keenan
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
— Maynard James Keenan
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same. - A Perfect Circle. — Maynard James Keenan
