142 Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

Yeah, because I think it’s more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

The record company’s worst fear is that you’ll fall in love or get rich.

You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don’t have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.

Actually I never did stand up. I’m not that funny.

After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I’m a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we’re doing and drawing from source material; it’s very research oriented and esoteric.

But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

One of the challenges we set up for ‘Puscifer’ was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.