Maynard James Keenan People Quotations

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

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.

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

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.

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.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

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.

There is still a future with music, because people want music

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.

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.

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.

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.

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.