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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.

Maynard James Keenan

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