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Maynard James Keenan Quotes

Total quotes: 26
“Desperate and ravenous
I'm so weak and powerless
over you”
— Maynard James Keenan, Weak And Powerless
Tagged: Desperate, Ravenous, Power, Weakness
“Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Right in Two
Tagged: Free Will, humanity, Confused, Society
“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Parabola
Tagged: Body, Mortality, Soul, Embrace The Moment, eternal, Pain, Illusion
“There’s always going to be a lesson to be learned from whatever it is that you’re being exposed to.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Maynard James Keenan Talks Business, Marketing And When The New Tool Record Is Coming Out
Tagged: You're Always Learning, Exposure To New Things
“I think a lot of the training comes from experience both conscious and unconscious, and they might reveal themselves as they go.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Digging up the Past With Maynard James Keenan
Tagged: Training, Learning
“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. In order to survive you, I must first survive myself.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Bottom
Tagged: surviving, Destroy, Courage
“...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.”
— Maynard James Keenan, A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
Tagged: Music, Heartbeat, Rythmn, Soul
“As you get older, there are just different perspectives and different things that are unrecognizable until you've crossed a few bridges.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Digging up the Past With Maynard James Keenan
Tagged: Getting Older, Learning things
“Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Annihilation
Tagged: Life, Ordeal, system, Rejecting the system, Norms
“At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you”
— Maynard James Keenan, A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
Tagged: Story, Bigger Story
“I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Unleashed: The Story of Tool
Tagged: only children, mind reading, Thoughts
“Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
— Maynard James Keenan
Tagged: Beliefs, Dogma, dangerous, Funtion, Mind
“You can’t tell me that one of the most effective guys on the floor at Wall Street isn’t an artist in his own way.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Maynard James Keenan Talks Business, Marketing And When The New Tool Record Is Coming Out
Tagged: Everyone Is An Artist, Wall Street, The Art of Money
“People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.”
— Maynard James Keenan
Tagged: People, Following Your Heart
“We're victims of sedition on the open sea
No one ever said life was free
Sink, swim, go down with the ship
Just use your freedom of choice.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Freedom of Choice
Tagged: Freedom, Choice, Life, Free, Victims
“Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me..If I really don't feel anything at all?”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Stinkfist
Tagged: Desentisize, Subtlety, Feelings, Emptiness
“Because as an only child, you have your own little world.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Unleashed: The Story of Tool
Tagged: only children, Independence, Imagination
“Help me understand why
You've given in to all these
Reckless dark desires.”
— Maynard James Keenan, The Outsider
Tagged: Understanding, dark, Desire
“I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Schism
Tagged: Fault, Blame, Communication, Desire
“I may find peace within the emptiness, how pitiful.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Reflection
Tagged: Peace, Emptiness, Pity
“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.”
— Maynard James Keenan
Tagged: Living, Writing
“I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.”
— Maynard James Keenan, A Stranger
Tagged: sweet, Insanity, Whisper
“So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Third Eye
Tagged: Belief, Dogma, Chase, Run Away
“Dead as dead can be,’ my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, never the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, ‘You disappoint me,’
Maybe you’re better off this way.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Passive
Tagged: Doubt, Negative, Pessimism, Enemy
“I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you, there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice. I'm shameless now, I'm nameless now, I'm nothing now, I'm no one now but my soul must be iron 'cause my fear is naked I'm naked and fearless and my fear is naked.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Bottom
Tagged: Pain, sinking, Shameless, Nameless, Change, Fear, Naked
“So crucify the ego, before it's far too late,
To leave behind this place so negative and blind
And cynical - and you will come to find that,
We are all one mind capable of
All that's imagined and all conceivable,
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through,
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason,
Before we pine away.”
— Maynard James Keenan, Tool- Reflection
Tagged: Ego, Negativity, Blindness, Cynical, Imagination
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