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I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
Maynard James Keenan
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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James Herbert Keenan
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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
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Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.
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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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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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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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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
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Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
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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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Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
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If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
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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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We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
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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.
Maynard James Keenan
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
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