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
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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.
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
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.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
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.
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.
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 are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
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.
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.