Jason Mraz Quotes
My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.
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One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
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Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
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My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.
