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Maynard James Keenan is a renowned American singer known for his distinctive voice and musical talent. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the band Tool, and also serves as the frontman for Puscifer and A Perfect Circle. Keenan's musical style is diverse, ranging from hard rock to experimental music, showcasing his musical versatility.

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

People Thinking Neglected

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“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.”

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

People Reason Tools Not Interested

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

People Knows Want Care Sociopath Borderline

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“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.”

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“But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.”

People Government Focus Educated

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“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.”

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

People Want Stills Music Is

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About the Author

Born: April 17, 1964
Known for: Singer
Quotes: 104

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