Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan, often referred to by his initials MJK, is an American musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning progressive metal band Tool. He is originally from Ohio, but spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the United States Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1988 to pursue a career...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 April 1964
CountryUnited States of America
Maynard James Keenan quotes about
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.
We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
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.
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.
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.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.