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Sure, I love fairy tales.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
Tales
Atheism
Doubt
Sure
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Fairy

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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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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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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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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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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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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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Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
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