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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
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.
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Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.
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There's always somebody in your life you know that just, somehow, you know, they're just that borderline sociopath that just wants what they want and doesn't care about relationships. Everybody has several of those people in their life.
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The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
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You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
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Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
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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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I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
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A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
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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.
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Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
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I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.
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This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
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I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
Maynard James Keenan
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
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