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Maynard James Keenan
1964 • American • Singer
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Showing 50 quotesOne 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
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.— Maynard James Keenan
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
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.— 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.— Maynard James Keenan
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.— Maynard James Keenan
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.— 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
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.— 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