Maynard James Keenan Quotes - Page 4

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• Sure, I love fairy tales.

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  Doubt, Atheism, Fairy Tale

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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.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Army, Thinking, Discipline

  "Tool a Bigger `Threat' Than Any Rapper". The Australian, July 20, 2001.

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• I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

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  Historical, Patterns, Behavior

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• I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Thinking, Think Big, Bigs

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• Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Only Child, World

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• You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Listening, Grew Up, Grew

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

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• But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Government, People, Focus

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• Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

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  Break Even, Records, Half

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• The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

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  Falling In Love, Records, Rich

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Past, Easier, Has Beens

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• 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

  Spinning Around, Clothes, Done

  "Lollapalooza Still Packs A Wallop". Boston Globe, July 04, 1997.

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• 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

  Thinking, Media, Style

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• Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Tools, Inspired, Release

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• There is still a future with music, because people want music

  Maynard James Keenan

  People, Want, Music Is

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• We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

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  Guy, Tools, Four

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• The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Drawing, Brain, Tools

  "A Brain Comes Full Circle" by Neil Strauss, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Circles, Perfect, People

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• One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Challenges, Identity, Come Up

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• I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Wanted

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• 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.

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

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  Song, Writing, Finishing

  Source: voidau.com

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• Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Tools

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• After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Band, Today, Stealing

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• Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Funny

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 13, 2006.

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• Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Religious, Roots, Stories

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