Maynard James Keenan Quotes
For the music, it’s not about the individual - so the more you let the music speak for yourself, the more powerful the music will be.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this talented man with so many hit songs give it all up? Well, we all know it was love, but beyond that, it was a leap of faith to try something new.
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The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.
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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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People should be blessed in life with friends who are both 'Mirrors and Shadows'! Mirrors don't lie and shadows never leave.
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For the music, it’s not about the individual - so the more you let the music speak for yourself, the more powerful the music will be.
