Quotes by Maynard Keenan

• There is still a future with music, because people want music.
• I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
• I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
• I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
• Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
• Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
• The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you 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.
• 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.
• We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
• I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
• 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.
• Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
• I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
• 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.
• 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.
• And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
• Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
• But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
• Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
• Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
• I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.
• I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
• I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
• 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.
• I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
• I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
• After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
• 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.
• For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.