142 Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

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

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.

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.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

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.

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.

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.

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