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Life feeds on life ... feeds on life feeds on life ... this is neccesary ... this is necessary life feeds on life ... feeds on life
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
101. I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
Behind all the dark humor, Bill was talking about the same things I'd read in Joseph Campbell. If you look at things, really look, if you lift the veil, you start to recognize that light is love, is infinite, is unconditional. Bill was saying that once you understand the nature of nature, you can let go of difficulties and sign on for the ride - knowing that it's just a ride. And
112. I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.
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.
There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.
94. Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
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.
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
Seems like Ive been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like Im slipping
into a dream within a dream.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
115.Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me..If I really don't feel anything at all?
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.
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.
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.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the loch ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding ones soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to this magnificent creature was to become empathetic. Abandon all pretense and preconceptions. To bare an open throat. To collapse into the arms of vulnerability. All but extinct, these beings/moments are threatened by the black hearted. The cold and oblivious. The empty eyed profit seekers that overlook these rare precious moments.
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.
We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
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
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
136. So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.
I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.
I needed to get it out. It was that tipping point where you either become a serial killer or a rock star.
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
There is still a future with music, because people want music.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
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.
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.