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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.

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
Life
Open
Eyes
Lying
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Jesus
Dont
Christ
Save
Light
Blind
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Lies

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Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
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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 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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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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Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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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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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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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
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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 just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
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Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
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Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
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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'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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Sure, I love fairy tales.
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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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