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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Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
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The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
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I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
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I needed to get it out. It was that tipping point where you either become a serial killer or a rock star.
