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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.
Maynard James Keenan
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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James Herbert Keenan
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Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normalbut if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.
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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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People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.
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Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
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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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Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
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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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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
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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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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
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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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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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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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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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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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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 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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