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" Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. "

Maynard James Keenan

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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. "

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Maynard James Keenan

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