Jack Johnson Quotes

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

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

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast. ~ Jack Johnson

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 ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect ... ~ Jack Johnson

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

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

Listen close and all else fades, fades away. ~ Jack Johnson

During the depression, people fought each other for boxes of groceries and if you were lucky you might get a few shillings for fighting six rounds. When Jack Johnson was World Heavyweight Champ, back in the early 1900s, Hartlepool had a brilliant boxer called Jasper Carter. People today will never have heard of him, but almost 100 years ago he put Hartlepool on the fistic map. ~ Stephen Richards

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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 ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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? ~ Jack Johnson

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music. ~ Halston Sage

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

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

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys. ~ Anushka Sharma

Getting lost is not a waste of time, ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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 ~ Jack Johnson

Don't let your dreams be dreams ~ Jack Johnson

You better hope you're not alone. ~ Jack Johnson

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

Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New York, when it's miserably hot. I love electric Miles Davis in the summer. Jack Johnson, the songwriting especially, is a premier example of that. It always makes me feel hot in the city. It's also nice to have something not yelling in your ear. For me, as a lyricist, it's nice to put on something without any words. ~ Craig Finn

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

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

A billion people died on the news tonight. ~ Jack Johnson

His dreams are like commercials. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench ... ~ Bernice L. McFadden

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

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

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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. ~ Jack Johnson

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

Plato's cave is full of freaks. ~ Jack Johnson

If he died now, Grainier probably wouldn't know it until they came into the light of the gas lamps either side of the doctor's house. After they'd moved along for nearly an hour without conversation, listening only to the creaking wagon and the sound of the nearby river and the clop of the mares, it grew dark. ~ Denis Johnson

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them. ~ Bill Johnson

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother. ~ Denis Johnson

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence. ~ James Johnson

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel. ~ Jack Kirby

Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us. ~ Jack Dangermond

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. ~ Philip Johnson

All I have, really, is my creativity. ~ Jack Abramoff

Grayson Dunn is in my head. He's under my skin. He's invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don't even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I'm twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation. ~ Julie Johnson

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. ~ Samuel Johnson

What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life? ~ Jack Canfield

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

They're about a woman whose beauty is like a rare flower. There is a man who has a great love for her, a love he's been saving up for his entire life, and it doesn't matter that he must make a great journey to her, and it doesn't matter if their time together is brief, that afterward he might lose her, for she is the flower of his heart and nothing will keep him from her. ~ Adam Johnson

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. William Butler Yeats ~ Jack Kornfield

Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation. ~ Jack Tretton

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split. ~ Jack Vance

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job. ~ Jack Hyles

He knew this could turn out to be a very dangerous ploy if it backfired, but he also knew he had his best friend firmly on his side. If nothing else, he knew he could let her take all the blame and she'd do it. He'd owe her majorly - what else were best friends for but blackmail opportunities and owing giant favors, anyway - but she'd do it. ~ Jean Johnson

You can not be fearless without first admitting you have been afraid. ~ Jack Laursen

Right now we're in an arms race with the microbes, because, effectively, we're operating on the same scale that they are. The viruses are both our enemy and our arms manufacturer. ~ Steven Johnson

I don't really watch that much TV. I have training camp to worry about. ~ Raylee Johnson

You can't save someone from their own decisions. ~ Jack Croxall

As for all your latest Mayan discoveries and poems, I want to hear every word of it if you want to transmit it, or tell it when we meet, but don't expect me to get excited by anything anymore. ~ Jack Kerouac

It was his detachment that saved us. Another man would have reacted with force to the Soviet treachery. He would have shared the righteousness of the cause, been stirred to attack by the saber rattling. Jack resisted. He was not moved by the emotion of other around him. He knew his course and stayed to it. Thank God. The boy who had read alone of history's heroes was now safely on of them. He had done it not winning a war, but by averting one far more horrible than any leader in the past could have imagined." - p.373 ~ Chris Matthews