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
Finding beauty in the dissonance
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
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.
Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.
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.
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.
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.