Josh Groban Quotes

#1. I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again

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#2. I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

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#3. I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

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#4. When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

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#5. My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

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#6. Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

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#7. I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

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#8. Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.

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#9. I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

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#10. I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

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#11. If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

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#12. Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

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#13. It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

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#14. She's out from my life, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

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#15. When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I visited parts of the world that I'd never been to and found that I was spending maybe 30 days at home a year.

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#16. The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

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#17. I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.

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#18. Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

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#19. Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.

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#20. When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

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#21. Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

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#22. Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

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#23. Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

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#24. I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

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#25. Even with our differences There is a place we're all connected Each of us can find each other's light, There's so much to be thankful for.

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#26. Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

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#27. When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

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#28. The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

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#29. My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.

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#30. My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

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#31. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva

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#32. I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

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#33. Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

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#34. After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

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#35. What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

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#36. I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.

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#37. If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, 'God, I really wish I was there with you right now', I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.

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#38. As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

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#39. I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.

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#40. Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

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#41. I believe
That angels breathe
And that love will live on and never leave

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#42. I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.

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#43. I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I can interpret, but if given the opportunity to really write from the heart and try and bring some personality to whatever this genre would be, it was a great opportunity for me.

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