Jason Mraz Quotes
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Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously
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Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.
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It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.
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I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.
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The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.
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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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We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.
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You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.
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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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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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I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.
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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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To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.
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Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
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I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.
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I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
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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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I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
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When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.
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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.
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I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.
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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 surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"