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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.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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