Maynard James Keenan

Finding beauty in the dissonance

— Maynard James Keenan

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

— Maynard James Keenan

“You answer your own questions.”

— Maynard James Keenan

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

— Maynard James Keenan

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

— Maynard James Keenan

“Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.”

— Maynard James Keenan

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

— Maynard James Keenan

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

— Maynard James Keenan

“Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.”

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

— Maynard James Keenan

“I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.”

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

“Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this…

— Maynard James Keenan

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to…

— Maynard James Keenan

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

— Maynard James Keenan

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

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and…

— Maynard James Keenan

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

— Maynard James Keenan

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…

— Maynard James Keenan

Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to…

— Maynard James Keenan

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,…

— Maynard James Keenan

There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with,…

— Maynard James Keenan

“I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire…

— Maynard James Keenan

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the…

— Maynard James Keenan

“So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing…

— Maynard James Keenan

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…

— Maynard James Keenan

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and…

— Maynard James Keenan

I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and…

— Maynard James Keenan

“Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the…

— Maynard James Keenan

“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can…

— Maynard James Keenan

I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to…

— Maynard James Keenan

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative.…

— Maynard James Keenan

Do unto others what has been done to you,

— Maynard James Keenan

Sure, I love fairy tales.

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan