Words matter. These are the best Maynard James Keenan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
There is still a future with music, because people want music.
Actually I never did stand up. I’m not that funny.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
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.
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
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.
We’re just four guys and we are enjoying what we’re doing with Tool.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
And if you don’t live, you have nothing to write about.
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.
I’ve always had an affinity for growing things.
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.
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don’t know what to expect.
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.
I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead.
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.
I’m a pessimist. But I’m a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
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.
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.
But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
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.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
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.
But I’m a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I’m going to make something out of it.
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
