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Maynard James Keenan [1964-0] American

Rank: 101
Musician

Maynard James Keenan, often referred to by his initials MJK, is an American musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning progressive metal band Tool.

Music, Government, Art, Change, Education, History, Humor, Knowledge

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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.	Change	101
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.	Government, History	102
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.	Education, Knowledge	103
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.	Music	104
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.	Art	105
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.		106
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.		107
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.		108
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.	Government	109
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.		110
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.		111
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.	Music	112
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.		113
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.	Music	114
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.		115
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.		116
I've always had an affinity for growing things.		117
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.		118
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.		119
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.		120
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.		121
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.		122
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.		123
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.		124
There is still a future with music, because people want music.		125
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.		126
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.		201
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.		202
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.		203
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.		204
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.		205
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?		206
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.		207
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.		208
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.		209
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.		210
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.		211
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.		212
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.		213
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.		214
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.	Humor	215
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.		216
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.		217
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.		218
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.		219
One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.		220
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.		221
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.		222
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.		223
We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.		224

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