Mraz Quotes

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh
crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be. ~ Jason Mraz

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table. ~ Jason Mraz

Everything is perfect.
Everything is fine.
The rules of life are made up.
The rules only exist in your mind.
Of course there may be courtesies
And closures and laws to abide,
But the zeal with which you play
Relies on where YOU draw the line ~ Jason Mraz

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!" ~ Jason Mraz

Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start. ~ Jason Mraz

My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment. ~ Jason Mraz

My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members. ~ Jason Mraz

If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it. ~ Jason Mraz

I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me. ~ Jason Mraz

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right. ~ Jason Mraz

You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don't wish it the best, then you're only holding on to its failure, you're only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it's not about you anymore. ~ Jason Mraz

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders. ~ Jason Mraz

Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you. ~ Jason Mraz

It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is. ~ Jason Mraz

Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all. ~ Jason Mraz

I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move. ~ Jason Mraz

And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both)) ~ Jason Mraz

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. ~ Jason Mraz

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind. ~ Jason Mraz

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit. ~ Jason Mraz

I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new. ~ Jason Mraz

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters ... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. ~ Jason Mraz

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre. ~ Grant Gustin

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine ~ Jason Mraz

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another. ~ Jason Mraz

Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part. ~ Jason Mraz

If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird. ~ Jason Mraz

To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep. ~ Jason Mraz

In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that. ~ Jason Mraz

There's no shame in being crazy ... ~ Jason Mraz

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment. ~ Jason Mraz

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. ~ Jason Mraz

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness. ~ Jason Mraz

I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids. ~ Jason Mraz

You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it. ~ Jason Mraz

I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality. ~ Jason Mraz

I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. ~ Jason Mraz

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action. ~ Jason Mraz

Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously ~ Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD. ~ Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners. ~ Jason Mraz

I love eating healthy and doing the yoga thing, because I think I'm going to live to a thousand doing so. And that's because I don't want to leave here so soon. I want to stick around as long as I can, but I know that's not going to be the case. We're all going. ~ Jason Mraz

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything. ~ Jason Mraz

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other. ~ Jason Mraz

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible. ~ Jason Mraz

Lucky to have been where I have been ~ Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child. ~ Jason Mraz

Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head? ~ Jason Mraz

Mystery the moon
A hole in the sky
A supernatural nightlight
So full but often right
A pair of eyes, a closin' one,
A chosen child of golden sun
A marble dog that chases cars
To farthest reaches of the beach and far beyond into the swimming sea of stars

A cosmic fish they love to kiss
They're giving birth to constellation
No riffs and oh, no reservation.
If they should fall you get a wish or dedication
May I suggest you get the best
For nothing less than you and I
Let's take a chance as this romance is rising over before we lose the lighting
Oh bella bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Do do do do do

You are an illuminating anchor
Of leagues to infinite number
Crashing waves and breaking thunder
Tiding the ebb and flows of hunger
You're dancing naked there for me
You expose all memory
You make the most of boundary
You're the ghost of royalty imposing love
You are the queen and king combining everything
Intertwining like a ring around the finger of a girl
I'm just a singer, you're the world
All I can bring ya
Is the language of a lover
Bella luna, my beautiful, beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other

May I suggest you get the best
Of your wish may I insist
That no contest for little you or smaller I
A larger c ~ Jason Mraz

In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you. ~ Jason Mraz

I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing. ~ Jason Mraz

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. ~ Jason Mraz

I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, " Lucky". I actually don't remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day! ~ Megan Lee

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way. ~ Jason Mraz

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability. ~ Jason Mraz

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do. ~ Jason Mraz

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away. ~ Jason Mraz

I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material. ~ Jason Mraz

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while. ~ Jason Mraz

Sometimes people forget their own greatness. ~ Jason Mraz

I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home. ~ Jason Mraz

I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across a tarmac before an aerial dogfight. I'm speaking cinematically here. The homoeroticism was an accident that I wont dismiss. ~ Jason Mraz

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times. ~ Jason Mraz

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there. ~ Jason Mraz

I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now. ~ Jason Mraz

Just remember one thing , life is not coming at you.Its coming from you. ~ Jason Mraz

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense. ~ Jason Mraz

I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space. ~ Jason Mraz

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete. ~ Jason Mraz

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music. ~ Jason Mraz

Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a high honor. I'm proud of the song at that point because I'm trying to write something for humans - whichever humans want to get on board and put this in their soundtrack to their soul's development or spiritual lives. ~ Jason Mraz

I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way. ~ Jason Mraz

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out. ~ Jason Mraz

Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and daily. On a side note to readers, any service or craft you give your heart to will give you the same effect. Don't be afraid to work less and play more! We are human. We didn't come here to hold down a dayjob. We came here to live and learn! ~ Jason Mraz

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you. ~ Jason Mraz

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities. ~ Jason Mraz

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time. ~ Jason Mraz

I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me. ~ Jason Mraz

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year. ~ Jason Mraz

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind. ~ Jason Mraz

Open up your plans and damn you're free! ~ Jason Mraz

I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts. ~ Jason Mraz

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too. ~ Jason Mraz

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. ~ Jason Mraz

When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. ~ Jason Mraz

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be. ~ Jason Mraz

When I look into your eyes it's like watching the night sky or a beautiful sunrise; well, there's so much they hold. And just like them old stars, I see that you've come so far to be right where you are. How old is your soul? ~ Jason Mraz

When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room. ~ Jason Mraz

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages. ~ Jason Mraz

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body. ~ Jason Mraz

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song. ~ Jason Mraz

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language. ~ Jason Mraz

I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice. ~ Jason Mraz

Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care. ~ Jason Mraz

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz. ~ Jason Mraz

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have. ~ Jason Mraz

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way. ~ Jason Mraz

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual. ~ Jason Mraz

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough. ~ Jason Mraz

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others. ~ Jason Mraz