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born 1964 United States
Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan on April 17, 1964) is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. He has been a member of the band Tool since 1990 and was a member of the band A Perfect Circle from 1999 to 2005.
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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.
It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
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.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
For the music, it’s not about the individual — so the more you let the music speak for yourself, the more powerful the music will be.
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
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.
It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
Black as holes within a memory
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.
I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
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