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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I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.
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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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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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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 wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I have met many a craven killer, many a sniveling coward in my time, but every one of them could admit the blackness in their own hearts when the hour came. You have caused the demon to weep.
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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
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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.
