Tool (Band)

Quotes

• “With their feet firmly planted on their spot on the stage and their faces obscured by their long hair, the players simpl...”
• “This song goes out to," vocalist and songwriter Maynard James Keenan began slowly.  And then he paused.  And h...”
• “Avoiding self-glorification, the band played in near-darkness under video screens on Monday.  Maynard James Keenan,...”
• “Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration-that we are all one c...”
• “What can I say about 10,000 Days, really?  It sounds exactly and precisely like a Tool album.  They might as w...”
• “Its songs hammer and seethe, melding the lowdown guitars of grunge, the odd meters of progressive rock and the whiplash ...”
• “In the popular musical climate of today, which seems to favor the blandness of processed rap metal or the redundancy of ...”
• “The Deceiver says, he says:"You belong to me. You don't wanna breathe the light of the others.Fear the light. Fear the b...”
• “Control, your delusion. Insane and striking at random.Victim of your certainty, and therefore your doubt's not an option...”
• “You're the only one who could hold your head up high shake your fist at the gate saying, "I have come home now" Fetch me...”
• “The music of Tool is the dark slime of a warm, black night.  Tool is an escape, a subtle revolution of sound and pe...”
• “A strangely chatty Maynard James Keenan broke his self-imposed exile and spoke casually to the crowd, inciting them to a...”
• “Free fall through our midnight, this epilogue of our own fable.Heedless in our slumber.Floating nescient we free fall th...”
• “First up, "Vicarious": a Dateline Special Report on violence in the news media featuring guest commentator Maynard James...”
• “We always try to think of something that's never been done before, you know, as far as album packaging, and I've been a ...”
• “E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.  He said, "You are the Chosen One, the One who will deliver the message.&...”
• “I am just a worthless liarI am just an imbecileI will only complicate youTrust in me and fall as wellI will find a centr...”
• “What we're thinking of as-as aliens, uh-they're-th-they're extradimensional beings that an earlier precursor of the, um,...”
• “Tears in my eyes chasing Ponce de León's phantoms.So filled with hope I can taste mythical fountains.False hope, perhaps...”
• “The universe is hostileSo impersonalDevour to survive, so it isSo it's always beenWe all feedOn tragedyIt's like blood t...”
• “And we thought if we could get this to work with our budget, you know, and put this out, it'd be really unique and refle...”
• “Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the groundSilly monkeys, give them thumbs, they make a club and beat...”
• “So, we need you to find a comfortable space that's not only comfortable, but vulnerable.  I want you to shut your e...”
• “Keenan…wore an all-black leather outfit, had his face painted black and stood on a spinning platform some distance from ...”
• “Adam Jones on his artwork for the 10,000 Days album packaging, quoted in "TOOL Guitarist Wins GRAMMY For 'Best Recording...”
• “Wear the grudge like a crown of negativityCalculate what we will or will not tolerateDesperate to control all and everyt...”
• “Yeah, I'm slipping back into the gap againI'm alive when you are touching meAlive when you are shoving me downBut I'd tr...”
• “And if there were no rewards to reapNo loving embrace to see me throughThis tedious path I've chosen hereI certainly wou...”
• “Set as I am in my ways and my arroganceBurden of proof tossed upon the believersYou were my witness, my eyes, my evidenc...”
• “[T]he band were as impeccably precise on their instruments as they are on record, with every dynamic, subtlety and threa...”
• “And I'm slipping back into the gap againI feel alive when you touch meI feel alive when you hold me…downSlipping back in...”
• “As esoteric and arcane as their music tends to be, there's no doubt that this unique group of musicians weave their magi...”
• “These lines constitute Henry Rollins's spoken-word portion of the song; Maynard resumes singing while Rollins is speakin...”
• “If God is our father," you thought, "then Satan must be our cousin."  Why didn't anybody else understand these impo...”
• “A child's rhyme stuck in my headIt said that life is but a dreamI've spent so many years in questionTo find I've known t...”
• “Our body is light, we are immortalOur body is light, we are immortalOur body is love, we are eternalOur body is love, we...”
• “Kev Truong, "Tool, The Melvins, Osseus Labyrint - April 24th, 2002 - Sydney, Australia @ Sydney Entertainment Centre," B...”
• “Prayed like a martyr dusk to dawnBegged like a hooker all night longTempted the devil with my songAnd got what I wanted ...”
• “My blood is bruised and borrowedYou thieving bastards, you haveTurned my blood cold and bitterBeat my compassion black a...”
• “It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom is what it is, okay?  Keep that in mind at all times, thank...”
• “This body holding me reminds me of my own mortalityEmbrace this moment, remember:We are eternal, all this pain is an ill...”
• “Pneuma.Reach out and beyond.Wake up, remember.We are born of One Breath, One Word.We are all One Spark, eyes full of won...”
• “Cause I'm praying for rain.I'm praying for tidal waves.I wanna see the ground give way.I wanna watch it all go down...”
• “Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here”
• “Daniel Kreps, "Tool Speed Up Progress on New Album After Settling Lawsuit," Rolling Stone (Sunday, 15 March 2015).”
• “Why can't we not be sober?I just want to start this overWhy can't we sleep forever?I just want to start this over”
• “You believe me, don't you?Please believe what I just saidSee the Dead ain't touringAnd this wasn't all in my head”
• “There's a shadow just behind meShrouding every step I takeMaking every promise emptyPointing every finger at me”
• “What was it like to seeThe face of your own stabilitySuddenly look away,Leaving you with the dead and hopeless?”
• “If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stayYou minimise my movement, anywayI must persuade you another way”