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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

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
Pain
Parabola
Illusion
Eternal

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There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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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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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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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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I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
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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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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
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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 think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
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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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