Maynard James Keenan Quotes - Page 4

Sure, I love fairy tales.

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.

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

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

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

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

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.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

There is still a future with music, because people want music

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

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.

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.

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.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something