Maynard James Keenan Quotes
"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: History, People)
"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
(Related: Life, Glamour, Media, Mystery)
"I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Work, Now, 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
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Kids, Newspapers, Schools, Television)
"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
(Related: Change, May, 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
(Related: Government, History, People, Control)
"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Religious)
"Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Music, Listening, Magic, Play)
"Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even."
- Maynard James Keenan
"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: 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
(Related: Artist, Choices)
"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
(Related: Music, People)
"We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool."
- Maynard James Keenan
"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Music)
"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
"Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect."
- Maynard James Keenan
"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
(Related: People, Artists, Hurt)
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Behavior, Nation)
"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
(Related: America, Europe, Names, Words)
"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
(Related: Music, Work)
"And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Nothing)
"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: World)
"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Government, People, Focus)
"Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Music)
"Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Music)
"I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Love, Being, Media)
"I always knew that I wanted to be an artist."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Artist)
"I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something."
- Maynard James Keenan
"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
(Related: Music, Force, Needs)
"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Hope, Artists, Clowns, Trying)
"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
(Related: Music, People, Inspiration, Hope, Fans)
"I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead."
- Maynard James Keenan
"After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Music, Today)
"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
(Related: Beginning, End, 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
(Related: Life, Writing)