Brandon Boyd Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.”
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“It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.”
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“I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.”
-- Brandon BoydSource : "Morning View". Studio album by Incubus, October 23, 2001.
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“The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.”
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“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.”
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“The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.”
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“I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.”
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“I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.”
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“You're always first when no one's on your side.”
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“There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.”
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“Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.”
-- Brandon BoydSource : "Song: 'Quicksand' ('Light Grenades')". 2006.
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“People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations.”
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“No regrets. Never never any regrets. Everything has been an experience and has led to me now. Everything has been important and essential. Fear... I'm afraid of what people, including myself, are capable of, but it also excites me. I'm afraid of the atrocities that we are capable of and the things that can happen if everyone makes decisions based on fear...”
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“I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.”
-- Brandon Boyd#Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Freedom Of Speech Quotes
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“Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.”
-- Brandon Boyd#Creativity Quotes #Self Worth Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes
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“I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.”
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“The world is a drought when out of love.”
-- Brandon BoydSource : "Song: 'Sick Sad Little World' ('A Crow Left of the Murder...')". 2004.
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“I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.”
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“As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.”
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“I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.”
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“Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.”
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“I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.”
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“Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.”
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“I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment.”
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“I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.”
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“Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.”
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“Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.”
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“Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.”
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“Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.”
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