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.
BRANDON BOYDToo bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
More Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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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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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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 follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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