Maynard James Keenan
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.Collection: Life Is Too Short
Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' manCollection: Real
Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.Collection: Acceptance
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.Collection: Children
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.Collection: Believe
It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.Collection: Running
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.Collection: Years
Finding beauty in the dissonance.Collection: Dissonance
People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.Collection: People
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.Collection: Breathing
We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.Collection: Pain
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?Collection: Liars
I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.Collection: Caring
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.Collection: Hero
There's always somebody in your life you know that just, somehow, you know, they're just that borderline sociopath that just wants what they want and doesn't care about relationships. Everybody has several of those people in their life.Collection: People
Sure, I love fairy tales.Collection: Doubt
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.Collection: Army
It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.Collection: Spinning Around
There is still a future with music, because people want musicCollection: People
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.Collection: Drawing
I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.Collection: Powerful
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.Collection: Song
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.Collection: Wine
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create somethingCollection: Creative
There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with, you know, that's just the way of life, nothing stops changing, you're always going to have the conflict till your last breath, I mean on your deathbed, arguing with the doctor who's going to pay the bill, you know, it's just the reality of it, so none of that ever goes away.Collection: Mean
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.Collection: Country
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Wine
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.Collection: Writing
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.Collection: Father
I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.Collection: Jobs
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.Collection: Strong
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.Collection: Art
You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.Collection: Listening
I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.Collection: Thinking
To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.Collection: Struggle
All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.Collection: Artist
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.Collection: Wine
I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.Collection: Real
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.Collection: Ego
Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.Collection: Strong
Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on lifeCollection: Atheism