Jason Mraz Quotes

#1. I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

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#2. Kiss me with your eyelashes tonight.

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#3. I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there.

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#4. Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

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#5. My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

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#6. You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

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#7. Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

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#8. I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

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#9. 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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#10. Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.

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#11. When I fall in love I take my time
There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind
You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

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#12. ...open up your heart and the sky is yours...

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#13. 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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#14. I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

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#15. As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.

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#16. You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

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#17. In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.

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#18. 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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#19. When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.

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#20. 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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#21. What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

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#22. I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

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#23. 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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#24. you can turn of the sun, but i will always shine

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#25. In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

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#26. In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a light on an actual issue or a person, you can acknowledge whatever you like with music and people will listen.

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#27. Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

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#28. I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

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#29. Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

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#30. Are we all here standing naked, taking guesses at the actual date and time?

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#31. I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

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#32. I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

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#33. It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.

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#34. I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

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#35. 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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#36. For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

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#37. If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.

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#38. I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

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#39. 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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#40. If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

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#41. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

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#42. I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

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#43. My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online.

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#44. I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

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#45. Oh my, justifying reasons why
Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by
((Live High))

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#46. 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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#47. If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

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#48. Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

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#49. Just remember one thing , life is not coming at you.Its coming from you.

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#50. I'm most grateful for my health. It's taken me a long time to get where I am, to feel as strong as I do in my mind and in my body. It's through that that I'm able to be present in all my relationships and not get overwhelmed by what could seem like a big task, going all around the world constantly.

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#51. I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.

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#52. 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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#53. I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.

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#54. I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is.

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#55. I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again

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#56. Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn't have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it.

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#57. I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.

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#58. Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.

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#59. You win some, you learn some.

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#60. Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

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#61. A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

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#62. I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

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#63. I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.

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#64. It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

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#65. I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

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#66. I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.

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#67. I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

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#68. Everything is perfect.
Everything is fine.
The rules of life are made up.
The rules only exist in your mind.
Of course there may be courtesies
And closures and laws to abide,
But the zeal with which you play
Relies on where YOU draw the line

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#69. Open up your plans and damn you're free!

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#70. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.

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#71. If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.

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#72. I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.

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#73. Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

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#74. My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.

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#75. 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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#76. I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

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#77. I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.

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#78. Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

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#79. 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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#80. You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

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#81. 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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#82. I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

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#83. As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

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#84. 'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.

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#85. The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

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#86. 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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#87. The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.

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#88. 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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#89. Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

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#90. 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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#91. Lucky to have been where I have been

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#92. You're the ghost of royalty imposing love
You are the queen and king combining everything
Intertwining like a ring around the finger of a girl
I'm just a singer, you're the world
All I can bring ya
Is the language of a lover
((Bella Luna))

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#93. If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking,

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#94. For every action there's a reaction. And also, for every action there's an equal and opposite criticism.

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#95. It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.

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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

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#99. I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?

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#100. In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.

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