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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
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Ravenna
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James Herbert Keenan
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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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A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
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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.
Maynard James Keenan
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Maynard James Keenan
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
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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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Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
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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.
Maynard James Keenan
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Maynard James Keenan
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.
Maynard James Keenan
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
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I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.
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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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