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Maynard James Keenan

"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."

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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."

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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands."
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"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."
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"I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love."
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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."
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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."
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