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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
Maynard James Keenan
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
Maynard James Keenan
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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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
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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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Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
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