Music 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.
BRANDON BOYDIt’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.
More Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
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I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
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Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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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 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.
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Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
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