Maynard James Keenan

(121 votes)   Remember, we are eternal. All this pain is an illuision.

Maynard James Keenan
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(39 votes)   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.

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(26 votes)   Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

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(25 votes)   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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(24 votes)   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.

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(19 votes)   I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

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(16 votes)   I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.

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(16 votes)   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.

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(15 votes)   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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(13 votes)   After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

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

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

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(12 votes)   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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(10 votes)   I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

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(10 votes)   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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