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A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
Maynard James Keenan
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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Ravenna
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James Herbert Keenan
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
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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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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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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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Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.
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