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.

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

Maynard James Keenan

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Maynard James Keenan

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.

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

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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.

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

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

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

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.

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

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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

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

I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.

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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.

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

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Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Maynard James Keenan

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

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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.

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Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

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

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Maynard James Keenan

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Maynard James Keenan

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Bill Frist

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Kent McCord

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Nat King Cole