Quotes from Maynard James Keenan


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

    Work | Past | Sure


    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.

    Challenges | Identity | Push


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

    History | Learn | Neglected


    Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

    Music | Inspired | Release


    I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

    Artist | Knew


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

    Legend | Dead


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

    Four | Guys | Enjoying


    You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

    Listening | Grew | Mitchell


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

    Home | Forest | Edge


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

    Break | Million | Half


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

    Strange | Expect | Shows


    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.

    Music | Hope | Whatever


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

    Creative | Create | Knew


    For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

    Life | Listen | Matter


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

    Humor | Reason | Interested


    But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

    Nature | Situation | Present


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

    Art | Heal


    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.

    Choices | Lawyer | Doctor


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

    Hope | Rather | Artists


    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.

    Music | Together | Perfect


       

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