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“A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Because as an only child, you have your own little world.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Because I think reading is a thinking process, and I would prefer that people feel the album first, and just let it sink in.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Because you might get something out of the music that you might not get from thinking about it, and watching the words go by.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“But I've never gotten so down into it that I couldn't dig my way back out, luckily.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I just like the incognito aspect, because now I can wander around even where I live and not really be hassled too much.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I just think it's really unfair for my child to have to be victimized by my career - you know, here you are signing autographs in the 7-11. It seems ridiculous to me.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I suppose I could repeat myself over and over again, but what's the point of that?” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“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 J. Keenan

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“I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I usually put the lyrics online a month or so after the release of the album, but it's better to feel them first.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“The panic you're seeing now is basically coming from the labels trying to figure out how they're gonna monopolize and manipulate and suck the blood out of artists anymore.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“The same argument could be made about the Beatles: Ever since the Beatles, there's been a regurgitation, trying to figure out how to reinvent that wheel.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“There are so many factors and so many things that all play a part in shows, that you really never know what makes a good show.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“There is still a future with music, because people want music.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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“When Bach and Beethoven and all of those guys were doing their thing, it was an absolute pinnacle of our consciousness, and ever since then we've been re-exploring different avenues of it.” — Maynard J. Keenan

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