Best 92 quotes of Maynard James Keenan on MyQuotes

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.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

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.

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

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

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.

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

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

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

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

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

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.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Do unto others what has been done to you.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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

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 believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

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.

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

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.

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

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

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

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

I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.

I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.

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.

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

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

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.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life