Maynard James Keenan Quotes
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Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
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I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
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If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
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Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life
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Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
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Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
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I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
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Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
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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.
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Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
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I've always had an affinity for growing things.
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Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
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So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all thats imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away.
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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.
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I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
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To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.
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If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
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The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
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It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
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Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.
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It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.
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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 more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
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Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
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Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
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Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
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