Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It’s an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
BRANDON BOYDThe girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
More Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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 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.
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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 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 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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Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
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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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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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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 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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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 think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.
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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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