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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
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Record Producer
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
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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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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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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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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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You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world just be an artist and express your area.
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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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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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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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Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
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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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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
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Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
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Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
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It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
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You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
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I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.
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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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We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
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Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
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