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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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
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There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.
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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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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
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I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
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Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
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Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
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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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It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
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Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
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Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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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 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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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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