"There were a lot of choices to make……" — Maynard James Keenan
"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."
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65 Quotes by Maynard James Keenan
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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…
- I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of…
- 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…
- 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