Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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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Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.
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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'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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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
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I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!
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That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.
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Nothing is indeed "true."
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Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
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Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.
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Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.
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Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.
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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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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.
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I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
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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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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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I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
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I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.
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The world is a drought when out of love.
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On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.
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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.
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Never underestimate a dumb question.
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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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Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
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All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.
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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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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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