James Herbert Keenan (Maynard James Keenan) Quotes
I needed to get it out. It was that tipping point where you either become a serial killer or a rock star.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
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It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.
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The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.
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I'll never have a stylist.
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Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
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I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.
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Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.
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Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.
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Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and reach for what's beyond our limited perception. Its ambiguousness is related to the ambiguousness of music, and it doesn't guide us too much towards semantic domains. It contains all the necessary meaning required in our rock music.
