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Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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Life
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Breaths
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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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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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I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put multilingual on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
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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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It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
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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.
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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
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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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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
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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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There's always somebody in your life you know that just, somehow, you know, they're just that borderline sociopath that just wants what they want and doesn't care about relationships. Everybody has several of those people in their life.
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