Maynard James Keenan Quotes

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• Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
• Sure, I love fairy tales.
• 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 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…
• And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
• Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
• 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…
• 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.
• Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
• Do unto others what has been done to you,
• Finding beauty in the dissonance
• Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
• Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?
• 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…
• There is still a future with music, because people want music
• I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
• Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
• The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the…
• I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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