Jason Mraz Quotes
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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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I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
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It may be a hundred-year battle to turn around our industries and finally get everyone living on sustainable energy with technology that can keep our lives comfortable. If that's the case, the first 20 years of the shift have actually done a lot to support that. But there's still a long way to go, and judging by the state of the environment, we don't have that kind of time.
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I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.
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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 think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"
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Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream.
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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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I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.
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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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Open up your heart and the sky is yours.
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Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.
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It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.
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It takes some silence to make sound.
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I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.
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Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
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I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.
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I'm a lover, not a fighter. No battles for me.
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You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.
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What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.
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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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You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don't wish it the best, then you're only holding on to its failure, you're only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it's not about you anymore.
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You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It))
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Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.