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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.