Jack Johnson Quotes

But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine

Home is wherever we are if there's love here too

The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.

I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

His dreams are like commercials.

Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.

It's always better when we're together, somewhere in between together.

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

You don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/
We were victims together but lonely.

Listen close and all else fades, fades away.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.

I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven ...

Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.

He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.

I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.

Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.

Love's just a waste of energy
and life's just a waste of time
so why don't we get together
we could waste everything tonight

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.

I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.

We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.

Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one thing
Only this one time, what would you tell me?
Well maybe you could give me a suggestion
So I could know you, what would you tell me?
Maybe you could tell me what to ask you
Because then I'd know you, what would you tell me
Please tell me that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
And what are your intentions, will you try?
Impressions, you've made impressions
They're going nowhere
They're just going to wait here if you let them
Please don't let them
I want to know you
And if they're going to haunt me
Please collect them
Please just collect them
And now I'm begging
I'm begging you to ask me just one question
One simple question
Because then you'd know me
I'll tell you that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
At least for my own
What is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?
Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stone
Why must we always be untrue?

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect ...

The music brings me confidence and freedom. It's also the thing that can make me feel the most vulnerable. Once I finish writing all the songs for an album, once I actually record them, that whole process is usually easy and enjoyable. The part where I feel the most vulnerable is when it's all finished, I can make no more changes, I've turned it in, and there's no going back. All of a sudden I hear the songs in a different way; that's when I feel vulnerable.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

Don't let your dreams be dreams

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

Plato's cave is full of freaks.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations

I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor ... I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

You better hope you're not alone.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves
There's no need for rain
It's our own parade
Let's not be afraid of our reflections
It's not only you you're looking at now

Who's to say what's impossible?
Well they forgot this world keeps spinning.
And with each new day,
I can feel a change in everything.

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.

Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

Getting lost is not a waste of time,