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
There is still a future with music, because people want music
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.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
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.
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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.
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.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
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.
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.