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Top 80 Maynard James Keenan Quotes (2024 Update)

Maynard James Keenan Quote: “We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Finding beauty in the dissonance.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don’t judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Sure, I love fairy tales.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “I’m a pessimist. But I’m a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you – like me.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “Because as an only child, you have your own little world.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they’re all confused.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “And if you don’t live, you have nothing to write about.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “But I’m a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I’m going to make something out of it.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “The idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, then how can you heal?”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “I’ve always had an affinity for growing things.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “I feel like with music there’s so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.”
Maynard James Keenan Quote: “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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