Maynard James Keenan Quotes

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

End, Put, Reflection

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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History, Government, Control

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

Hurt, Artists, Insane

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.
Maynard James Keenan

Follow, Lead, Hearts

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

Music, Needs, Force

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

Education, Knowledge, Kids

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Play, Magic

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

Music, Hope, Whatever

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan

Art, Idea, Heal

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

Guy, Anyway, Fuel

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

Government, Focus, Educated

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
Maynard James Keenan

Live, Nothing, Write

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
Maynard James Keenan

Art, Yourself, Once

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
Maynard James Keenan

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

Nature, Whatever, Situation

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
Maynard James Keenan

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

Music, Together, Perfect

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

Change, May, Different

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

Life, Live, Writing

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

Nation, Behavior, Historical

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

Hope, Trying, Rather

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Maynard James Keenan

Sense, Pessimist

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Everything, Inspired

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Maynard James Keenan

History, Learn, General

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

Work, Past, Sure

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Nationality: American

Born: April 17, 1964

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