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Maynard James Keenan
American
Musician
About the author
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#People
#Hurt
#Artists
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Nation
#Behavior
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Words
#Europe
#America
#Names
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Work
#Music
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Nothing
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#World
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#People
#Government
#Focus
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Music
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Music
I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Love
#Being
#Media
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Artist
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Needs
#Music
#Force
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Hope
#Trying
#Artists
#Clowns
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Hope
#Fans
#People
#Music
#Inspiration
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Today
#Music
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#End
#Beginning
#Eternity
#Reflection
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Life
#Writing
There is still a future with music, because people want music.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Future
#Music
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#People
#History
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Life
#Media
#Mystery
#Glamour
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Now
#Work
#Past
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Television
#Education
#Knowledge
#Newspapers
#Schools
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,
American
Musician
#May
#Change
#Names
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#People
#Government
#History
#Control
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Religious
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Play
#Magic
#Music
#Listening
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Art
#Idea
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,
American
Musician
#Choices
#Artist
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.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#People
#Music
We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Maynard James Keenan,
American
Musician
#Music