Maynard James Keenan Quotes

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

Work, Past, Sure

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

Important, Feeling, Book

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Today, After

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Around, Tool

I've always had an affinity for growing things.
Maynard James Keenan

Growing, Affinity

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
Maynard James Keenan

Strange, Sometimes, Expect

There is still a future with music, because people want music.
Maynard James Keenan

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

Working, Problem, Child

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

Words, America, Europe

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
Maynard James Keenan

Humor, Reason, Interested

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Maynard James Keenan

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

Funny, Stand, Actually

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
Maynard James Keenan

Wanted, Artist, Knew

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
Maynard James Keenan

Creative, Wanted, Knew

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Big, Joni

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

Life, Him, Media

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

Religious, Stories, Global

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

Break, Half, Million

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

Far, Identity, Challenges

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
Maynard James Keenan

Home, National, Forest

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

Love, Fear, Rich

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

Guys, Four, Tool

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
Maynard James Keenan

Listening, Joni, Mitchell

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.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Work, Same

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

Once, Artist, Choices

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Nationality: American

Born: April 17, 1964

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