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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I think a lot of rock stars take themselves too seriously. Then again, if you want to be a ‘star’ you’ve got to appear to take yourself very seriously indeed. I, unfortunately, could never do this for any length of time. Probably because of my upbringing, my feet were planted far too firmly on the ground. I found the rock star thing pretty laughable. I couldn’t take those types seriously. If I had, I would probably have got further along in the business.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.
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The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
