Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

About Maynard James Keenan:

Maynard James Keenan is an American progressive metal singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning American progressive metal band Tool. He is originally from Ohio, but spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the United States Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1988 to pursue a career in interior design and set construction. Shortly thereafter, he formed the band Tool with Adam Jones.
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The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Maynard James Keenan

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

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.

Maynard James Keenan

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Maynard James Keenan

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

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 start feeling it out for themselves.

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

Maynard James Keenan

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Maynard James Keenan

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Maynard James Keenan

Author Bio

  • NameMaynard James Keenan
  • Descriptionmusician
  • BornApril 17, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Musician