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.
BRANDON BOYDI have always idolized eccentric people.
More Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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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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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Never underestimate a dumb question.
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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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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
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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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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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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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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 get out on my bike almost every day. If I can’t walk somewhere, I’ll bike or skateboard.
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I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
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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 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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