Jason Mraz Quotes
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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 think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"
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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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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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Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
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You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
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When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
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I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.
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I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.
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Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
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The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.
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I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).
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And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.
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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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Lucky to have been where I have been
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One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone. For a lot of people they just want to see you or want to take a photograph of that moment. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about.
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The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
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Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.
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I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way.
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I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.
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Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.
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I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.
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I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.
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"Be nice to your parents." When they made the decision to have a child, whether it was planned or not, they were changing their entire lives to do the best they could for this new human being. A lot of young people, we don't understand that.