Latest Maynard James Keenan Quotes from Interviews

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• Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Song, Writing, Finishing

  Source: voidau.com

• There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with, you know, that's just the way of life, nothing stops changing, you're always going to have the conflict till your last breath, I mean on your deathbed, arguing with the doctor who's going to pay the bill, you know, it's just the reality of it, so none of that ever goes away.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Mean, Reality, Doctors

  Source: voidau.com

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  People, Care, Want

  Source: voidau.com

• I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: voidau.com

• To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Struggle, Mean, Winter

  Source: voidau.com

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Caring, Thinking, People

  Source: voidau.com

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Writing, Men, Wish

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2015.

• I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Ego, Feels, Rooted

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2015.

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Real, Unique, Expression

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, music.avclub.com. November 2, 2015.

• Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Acceptance, Light, Goal

  "Tool: Things Are Going to Work Out". Interview with Robert Makin, www.shroomery.org. November 10, 2002.

• People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

  Maynard James Keenan

  People, Upset, Way

  Source: www.shroomery.org

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Thinking, Together, Stuff

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

• Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Finding Yourself, Desert, Losing Yourself

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Powerful, Believe, Museums

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

• All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Smell, People

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

• 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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Men, Artist, Leader

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.