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Maynard James Keenan Quotes


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.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

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.

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.

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.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

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.

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.

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.