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Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
Comes
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Music
Everything
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Tool
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We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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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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If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
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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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Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
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Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
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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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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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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
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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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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
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I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
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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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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.
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