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" 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. "
Maynard James Keenan
Believe
I Believe
Music
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" Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. "
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" 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. "
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