Maynard James Keenan Quotes - Page 2

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• One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hero, Artist, Feelings

  "Tool Leader Keenan Forms A Perfect Circle". Billboard, March 18, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Reality, Doctors

  Source: voidau.com

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• Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

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  Country, Race, People

  "The Tool Man: Blistering Band's Frontman Puts His Mind to the World's Problems". The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 25, 2001.

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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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  People, Care, Want

  Source: voidau.com

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• I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

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  Artist, Unique, Trying

  "Unleashed: The Story of Tool". Book by Joel McIver, 2013.

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• But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

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  Fire, Glasses, Guy

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

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  Liars, Mirrors, Differences

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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.

  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.

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• You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.

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  Wine, Artist, Expression

  "Tool Lead Singer Hits the Right Notes in the Winemaking Community". The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 07, 2008.

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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.

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  Jesus, Lying, Eye

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• 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.

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  Other Cultures, Names, Stories

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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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  Men, Artist, Leader

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

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: voidau.com

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• Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
  This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
  Relax. Slip away.

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  Hurt, Relax, May

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• Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

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  Father, Confused, Giving

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• I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

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  Art, Thinking, Honor

  "Tool at the Grammys". www.indiewire.com. February 11, 2008.

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• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

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  Listening, Waffles, Able

  "Sonic Evolution With the Use of Tool". Boston Globe, November 15, 1996.

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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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  Thinking, Together, Stuff

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Mean, Winter

  Source: voidau.com

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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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  Inspiration, People, Use

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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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  Education, Kids, School

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• Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

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  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

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  Hurt, Artist, People

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• 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.

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  Artist, Smell, People

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

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• But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

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  Italian, Hot, Situation

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