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Maynard James Keenan

"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."

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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."

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A.E. Samaan

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

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A.E. Samaan

"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."

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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."

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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."

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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."

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A.E. Samaan

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."

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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Maynard James Keenan
"Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads."

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Maynard James Keenan
"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history."

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Maynard James Keenan
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."

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Maynard James Keenan
"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."

Music

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Maynard James Keenan
"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people."

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Maynard James Keenan
"Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music."

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Maynard James Keenan
"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."

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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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"And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about."

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Maynard James Keenan
"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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