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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
- Maynard James Keenan
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Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Important
#People
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#Wake Up
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Knew
#Wanted
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Not Interested
#People
#Reason
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#More
#Music
#Process
#Reading
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
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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.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#I Believe That
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#Way
I've always had an affinity for growing things.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Growing
#Had
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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Music
#Think
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
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#People
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
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#Music
#People
#Whatever
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Yourself
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
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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.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Change
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#Story
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
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#Life
#Media
#Mystery
#Think
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Only Child
#Own
#World
#Your
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
- Maynard James Keenan
#About
#Live
#Nothing
#Write
#You
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Responsibility
#Sense
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Heal
#How
#Idea
#Then
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.
- Maynard James Keenan
#Follow
#Lead
#People
#Them
#Wal-Mart
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
- Maynard James Keenan
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#Legend
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
#Radio
#Television
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
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#Circle
#Eternity
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