I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. Maynard James Keenan More Quotes by Maynard James Keenan More Quotes From Maynard James Keenan Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man Maynard James Keenan eyelashes real men Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. Maynard James Keenan atheist mind believe Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw. Maynard James Keenan breaths life-is-too-short draws Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. Maynard James Keenan play animal children This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Maynard James Keenan pain body remember This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. Maynard James Keenan names believe people Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light. Maynard James Keenan light goal acceptance A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard James Keenan circles music reflection So crucify the ego, before its far too late Maynard James Keenan cynical ego light People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it. Maynard James Keenan funny-inspirational heart people It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back. Maynard James Keenan running jobs country Finding beauty in the dissonance. Maynard James Keenan dissonance findings Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability Maynard James Keenan fleeting eye heaven The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug. Maynard James Keenan drug trying years There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with, you know, that's just the way of life, nothing stops changing, you're always going to have the conflict till your last breath, I mean on your deathbed, arguing with the doctor who's going to pay the bill, you know, it's just the reality of it, so none of that ever goes away. Maynard James Keenan doctors mean reality Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. Maynard James Keenan suffering art There's always somebody in your life you know that just, somehow, you know, they're just that borderline sociopath that just wants what they want and doesn't care about relationships. Everybody has several of those people in their life. Maynard James Keenan care want people Cold silence has a tendency to Maynard James Keenan silence lovers compassion People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind. Maynard James Keenan upset people way I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters. Maynard James Keenan caring people thinking
