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" I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. "
Maynard James Keenan
Think
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Everything
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" Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. "
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" Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. "
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" There is still a future with music, because people want music. "
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" And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. "
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" I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. "
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" Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos. "
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" A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor. "
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" I always knew that I wanted to be an artist. "
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" One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it. "
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" The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal? "
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" 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. "
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" Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona. "
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" I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. "
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" I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. "
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