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.
BRANDON BOYDInsecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
More Brandon Boyd Quotes
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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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Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
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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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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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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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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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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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I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.
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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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Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
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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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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 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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Never underestimate a dumb question.
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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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