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We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

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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I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
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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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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
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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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Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
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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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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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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
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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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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
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Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
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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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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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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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I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.
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I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
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Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.
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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
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