I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can’t walk somewhere, I’ll bike or skateboard.
BRANDON BOYDMusic has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn’t come out the same if we’re not really excited about it.
More Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.
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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 have always idolized eccentric people.
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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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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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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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Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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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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