Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

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 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.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

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

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

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

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.

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

Actually I never did stand up. I’m not that funny.