Favorite Maynard quote

[alienation]

Ok, Alida just reminded me of something I've been wanting to do. Quote your favorite line by MJK, lyrical or otherwise.

Mine is....."remember I will always love you, as I claw your fucking throat away, there will be no other way...."

[Nyarlathotep]

"Pushit" is one of my favorite TOOL songs; another one of my favorites is "jimmy" - "I'll move to heal as soon as pain allows so we can reunite and both move on together."

I'll add some more when I think of them!

[lilacJ]

One of my favourites from Eulogy:

"Standing above the crowd, he had a voice so strong and loud and I swallowed his facade cuz I'm so eager to identify with someone above the ground, someone who seemed to feel the same, someone prepared to lead the way, with someone who would die for me.

Will you? Will you now? Would you die for me? Don't you fuckin lie."

"You've claimed all this time that you would die for me.
Why then are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy?"

[alienation]

'With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.'

Lateralus

[alienation]

Thought this was pretty interesting commentary by MJK on the song Reflection (it is my favorite lyrically)

"If you look at the cycles of the moon, it starts as a thin crescent and then gradually waxes and becomes full; then it gradually wanes back into another crescent and then is gone. The moon reflects sunlight like humans reflect information. We wax and wane and when we become full moons, our ego's are full. We think we have this knowledge when in fact, the information we have is pure. And it reflects or shines off of us, is something we take credit for as though the moon could take credit for the light it reflects from the sun. We have to understand that we are ego-less just as the moon is without light. It and we, are simply reflectors. The ego is not respondsible for the information."

It is an excerpt from an older interview with a philosophy professor. You can read it here.
toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=November_2001--Ontarion.html

My favorite part of Reflection:

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping
The moon tells me a secret - my confidant
As full and bright as I am
This light is not my own and
A million light reflections pass over me

[Nyarlathotep]

Here are some funny things Maynard said back in the 2000 webcast interview. These are paraphrased because it's been awhile since I watched the webcast, but you get the idea:

"Apparently, Jesus is coming. Now the question is, do we spit or swallow?"

"My favorite pie? 3.14."

(Someone asks Billy what his least favorite experience as a musician has been) "Working with me," answers Maynard.

[dervish]

think for yourself question authority.....

[Nyarlathotep]

Maynard's take on drugs:

"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' 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."

[alienation]

Nyarlathotep said:

Maynard's take on drugs:

"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' 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."

That is one of my favorites also. In fact I had considered posting it too!!!! LOL.

[Halo]

When asked why he was not the “angry” singer that he once was, Maynard had this to say:

“The idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, then how can you heal?”

[Halo]

"[Do you hate people?]"

"Pretty much, I would have to say absolutely."

"[Why?]"

"Ignorance."

[Nyarlathotep]

Halo said:

When asked why he was not the “angry” singer that he once was, Maynard had this to say:

“The idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, then how can you heal?”

Ah, that's an awesome one that I had forgotten about. Thanks for posting it, Halo!

[voiceofgod]

::)Hmmmm I had to think about this.

I guess mine would have to be from "H"

When MJK says:

"I am too connected to slip away, fade away."

It kind of reitifies my point that we never die. We (humans) are too connected with the energy of "The Three Spirals" (ask and I'll explain that one) that we will never die.

[pethealer]

Some classic MJK quotes from various Tool shows.

"Put your fucking clothes back on. I'm not really sure why somebody would want to take their clothes off at one of our concerts, but why you fucking Neanderthals can't evolve and keep your fucking hands off a naked lady, I don't know."

"Hey, we're not Green Day, so this will be more than three minutes long."

"Sorry about all the space from here to the barricade but we heard that Sacramento is suffering from a disease known as homophobia so we thought we should give you your safe space. This song, like all the other songs, is about - anal sex"


"We have a very special guest here tonight, a person who has never seen us perform, her first time. She is horrified, it's my mother. Judy, take a bow. She'll be spanking me all the way back to the dressing room later because I've been a very naughty boy."


"Is, is, uh, sodomoy still illegal in Arizona? Thank God. Gives us a goal to work for."

"Hi - we're Tool, we're from Los Angeles, CA and we have one mission and that is to make the world a better place to live in. So, what I'd like you to do now, I want you, you completely intellectually-inept Beavis & Butthead lovers, I want you to turn to those punk-rock haircut dudes and you punk-rock haircut dudes, I want you to try be happy, savvy, fucking, dead-head hippie fucks, I want you all to give each other a big sloppy kiss and say 'I forgive you for being a fucking idiot! Thank you, goodnight...so you want us to play? We're the headliners, so shut-up."

"Good evening. Nice to meet you. For those of you who took a wrong turn, this is not a Britney Spears show. However, Adam's tits will increase & decrease in size, by all the heat."

[Halo]

I'm pretty sure a couple of those were from APC shows.