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Song Quotes by Jason Mraz

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Jason Mraz says love songs feel like a gift you give yourself, spreading kindness outward. He notes that music grows from life’s moments and often appears spontaneously on stage. He also shares that music can open a quiet link to something larger, even a sense of the divine.

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Everything in life influences my music.

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“I won't give up on us”

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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

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

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It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

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Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

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

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

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“Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.”

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My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention…

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Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

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

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I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

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I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take…

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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the…

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By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's…

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'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song,…

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You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers…

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When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this…

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I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad…

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Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing…

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I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had…

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I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is…

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I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going…

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It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as…

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Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what…

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Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact…

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I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized…

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

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Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

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I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have…

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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's…

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I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you…

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Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to…

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I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves…

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The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it…

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I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next…

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When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something…

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Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality…

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

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving…

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we…

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In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became…

It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is…

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally…

Whenever I'm in need of inspiration and mantras, I go straight to simple affirmations. 'I am strong', 'I am brave', 'I can do this'…

Everything in life influences my music.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds…

I had a gig in Sweden. There were thousands of people there, and when I launched into 'I'm Yours,' they were all singing along.…

“I won't give up on us”

I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns on, I'm…