Maynard James Keenan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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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“This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
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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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“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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“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
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“Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
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“Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect”
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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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“Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here”
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“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.”
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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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“There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.”
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“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.”
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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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“I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.”
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“Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.”
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“I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.”
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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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“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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“Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.”
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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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