Jason Mraz Quotes
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I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
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If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.
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Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up
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You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.
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Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.
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Everything in life influences my music.
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You win some, you learn some.
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Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously
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Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.
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I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
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Sometimes people forget their own greatness.
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If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.
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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.
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A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.
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I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.
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Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.
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You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.
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My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!
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I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.
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Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
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When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.
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I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.