Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

But I’m a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I’m going to make something out of it.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our 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.

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.