Best 204 quotes of Jason Mraz on MyQuotes

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.

And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.

And when you're needing your space to do some navigating...I' ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find

Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.

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.

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.

As an American citizen, one has to vote.

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.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

"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.

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

But you are beautiful And you better go show it So go look again You gotta be true to your own If you really wanna go to the top Do you really wanna win Don’t believe in leaving normal Just to satisfy demand ((Beauty in Ugly))

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

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

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

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

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

For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

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

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.

Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

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

I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.

I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.

I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

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.

I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.

I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.

If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.

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

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.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

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

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.