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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
Tools
Comes
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Everything
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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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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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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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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 want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put multilingual on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
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