We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
There is still a future with music, because people want music — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
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… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
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… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
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… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
![“There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.” quote by Maynard James Keenan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a6b/maynard-james-keenan-3839_art_there-are-people-who-are-like-monkeys-in_342504.jpg)
