Mraz Quotes

#1. 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!

Jason Mraz

#2. Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre.

Grant Gustin

#3. Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

Kathleen Hanna

#4. I love 'Breathe' with Taylor (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) all over the world in the past year so I'm glad that's what won.

Colbie Caillat

#5. 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.

Jason Mraz

#6. Kiss me with your eyelashes tonight.

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#7. There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

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#8. When I look into your eyes it's like watching the night sky or a beautiful sunrise; well, there's so much they hold. And just like them old stars, I see that you've come so far to be right where you are. How old is your soul?

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#9. I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

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#10. 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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#11. I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

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#12. 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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#13. I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

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#19. You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

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

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

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

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

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

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#29. 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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#30. Let go the thought that cannot make you strong

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#31. I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

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#32. 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.

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#33. Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

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#34. When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

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

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#36. Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. "It seems all the negativity in the world doesn't affect you," he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It's all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. Music is my way to shine back and express positive vibrations for a common healing. It's similar to farming, or surfing, or yoga. Before world peace, we have to have inner peace and music helps us get there.

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#40. Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

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#41. The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.

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#42. 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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#43. Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously

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#44. Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

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#45. 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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#46. There's no shame in being crazy ...

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#47. 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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#48. I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

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#49. 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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#50. My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

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#51. When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

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#52. With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go you're going to be a different age or there's going to be different circumstances. So I think the best way to do it is to simply wish the best for that thing.

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#53. The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

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#54. Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It's weird. We have to call it "love," because we have to call it something, but it's not a word. It's an energy. It's an act. It's an action. It's a natural thing.

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#55. 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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#56. I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a ... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.

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#57. Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.

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#58. When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

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#59. 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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#60. Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.

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#61. 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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#62. If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. It takes some silence to make sound.

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#66. To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.

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#67. Listen to the Music of the Moment, people ... Dance and Sing!

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#68. If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.

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#69. 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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#70. Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you.

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#71. I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

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#72. Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don't forget you're one of a kind When nobody's checking the deeds you've done And nobody's hearing your cries You make all the fashion statements Just by dressing up your mind ((Beauty in Ugly))

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#73. 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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#74. I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

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#75. I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

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#76. 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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#77. I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

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#78. I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We're all going to have bummer moments. That's not the stuff I choose to share.

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

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

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#81. I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

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#82. 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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#83. And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))

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#84. I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across a tarmac before an aerial dogfight. I'm speaking cinematically here. The homoeroticism was an accident that I wont dismiss.

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#85. Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

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#86. 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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#87. The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

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#88. Yeah the world as I see it, is a remarkable place
Every man makes a difference and every mother's child is a saint
From a birds eye view I can see, we are spiraling down in gravity
From a birds eye view I can see, you are just like me
((The World as I see It))

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#89. 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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#90. I want to know why we exist and what I can do while I'm existing. Basically. it's learning how to exist, wholely, consciously. Growing up on fast food and television shows, you can easily forget to exist. You can even be treated as if you don't.

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#91. 'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

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#92. When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

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#93. I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.

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#94. Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

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#95. My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets.

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#96. Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

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#97. 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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#98. Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

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#99. Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.

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#100. 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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