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.
BRANDON BOYDSomeone 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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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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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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Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
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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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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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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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Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
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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 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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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 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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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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I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
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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 think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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