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When I Was In High School, The Dave Matthews Band Was A Local Band, And That Was The First Time I Was Starting To Connect With A Live Band That Was Something That Wasn't On The Radio Or Tv.

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Jason Mraz

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When I Was In High School, The Dave Matthews Band Was A Local Band, And That Was The First Time I Was Starting To Connect With A Live Band That Was Something That Wasn't On The Radio Or Tv.

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Capacity To Love

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Inspirational Love

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When Hands Are Joined, No One Can Point Fingers.

You Come To Realize That Only One Person Can Tell You What's Expected Of You, And That's You.

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 Looking.

I'm Not Always A Positive Person. I Wake Up Grumpy, I Read The Newspaper And I Get Furious That The World Is Still At War.

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It's When You Cry Just A Little, But You Laugh In The Middle That You've Made It.

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.

How We Treat Food Is How We Treat Ourselves. Eating And Buying Organic Means We're Committed To A Healthier World Overall. It's Good Karma.

You Come Out Of A Store And They Give You Seventy-five Cents Change Or Something, Rather Than Drop It I Would Always Place It In The Community. Sometimes I'd Flip It Into The Hat Of A Busker Or Give It To A Homeless Person. But What I Most Enjoyed Was Putting It On A Windowsill Or On A Bench Seat Or Somewhere Where I Knew That The Community Would Get It.

I Hope Everyone Wakes Up And Appreciates Life.

Appreciate Life

Well, For Me, What I've Learned At The Very End Of This, Love Is Sharing, And I Think That Really Is, For Me, The Best Place To Go To Experience Love, Is Sharing.

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.

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.

I Get Tired Of The Same Albums, The Same Look And Singing The Same Songs. When I Get Bored I Paint, I Plant Trees And Just Do Something Different. I Get Far Away From Singing.

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.

I'm A Lover, Not A Fighter. No Battles For Me.

I Try Not To Write Songs. I Would Rather Emote Them, And I Found Myself Going Back To My Room Every Night While On My Trip, Just Pouring Out New Songs And New Stories About What I Was Seeing, What I Was Feeling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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If We Truly Want To Have World Peace, We Have To End Human Trafficking.

Human Trafficking

And If You're Singing To Someone, Or If They're Singing Along, And Suddenly You're In Harmony, Then It's Actually Making A Huge Difference On A Subatomic Level That Is Actually Transforming The World.

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In A Song You Can Shine A Light On A Topic And With Your Voice At A Concert You Can Shine A Light On An Actual Issue Or A Person, You Can Acknowledge Whatever You Like With Music And People Will Listen.

The Foolish Idea That My Music Can Actually Make A Difference In Someone's Life - That Right There Is Proof That It's Working. It Makes Me Feel Great, It Really Does.

Making A Difference

I Write A Lot Of Material You've Never Heard That Live Inside My Sadness. You'll Hear A Song That Lasts Six To Seven Minutes Of Just Beautiful Sadness. But I Can't Just Go Out On The Stage To Ask Five Thousand People To Be Sad With Me For Seven Straight Minutes.

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.

Music Is My Way To Shine Back And Express Positive Vibrations For A Common Healing. It's Similar To Farming, Or Surfing, Or Yoga. Before World Peace, We Have To Have Inner Peace And Music Helps Us Get There.

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!

The Internet Is Awesome And Responsible For My Success.

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.

You Can't Live The Rest Of Your Life Carrying A Pain Because Your Parents Couldn't Get Along. I Choose To Spend My Life Crafting A Joy.

I Thought I Was The Center Of The World And That My Parents Had Nothing To Do With Me, And I Regret That. I Wish I Had Been A Little Kinder To My Family And Been Friends With Them And Let Them Into My Life And Shared With Them The Things I Was Doing Rather Than Feel Like I Needed To Do My Life In Secret.

It Makes Me Feel Great, Knowing My Songs Are Being Heard And Of Service To People.

I Basically Had The Idea When I Was 18 That I Wanted To Write My Own Songs. I Knew It Was Going To Be A Long, Tough Road, And I Was Like, If I Just Begin Now, By The Time I'm 40, I'll Be Good At It.

Being A Human Means Waking Up In This World, Where We All Have To Work And Slog To Put Food On The Table.

I Think Surprises Are What's Great About Life: "whoa! I Didn't See That Coming!"

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.

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.

Other People's Lives Are Affected By How You Are Treating Yourself And The Way In Which You Are Performing.

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.

Here’s To Freedom, Cheers To Art. Here’s To Having An Excellent Adventure And May The Stopping Never Start.

Humans Will Always Endure Suffering - Even Accepting The Fact That We're Going To Die Will Cause Us Suffering, And From That Stems A Little Pessimism And Negativity That All Of Us Are Susceptible To.

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.

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.

"be Nice To Your Parents." When They Made The Decision To Have A Child, Whether It Was Planned Or Not, They Were Changing Their Entire Lives To Do The Best They Could For This New Human Being. A Lot Of Young People, We Don't Understand That.

Listen To The Music Of The Moment, People....dance And Sing!

Yoga Has Had A Profound Effect On My Songs And Performances. I Don't Meditate In The Traditional Style Of Sitting And Doing Nothing. I Prefer The Zen Of Paying Attention, Such As The Meditation Of Yoga Flow, Or Walking Meditations. I Also Consider Singing, Surfing And Gardening To Very Meditative.

Walking Meditation

Sometimes You Forget Where The Heck You Are But When You Get On Stage, You Know By The Look On The People's Faces And The Accent In Their Voices Where You Might Be.

With Everything You're Letting Go, I'm Sure It's Going To Have A Different Value To You. And Every Time You Let Go You're Going To Be A Different Age Or There's Going To Be Different Circumstances. So I Think The Best Way To Do It Is To Simply Wish The Best For That Thing.

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.

Through My Years As A Writer, I've Learnt How To Simplify The Message And Pen Songs That Have A More Specific Quality - It's Not Just About My Ego And Trying To Meet Girls.

I Use Music And Mantras That Transform My Thoughts From The Negative To The Positive. If I'm Thinking The World Is A Horrible Place, I Can Transform My Life By Saying, 'i Won't Give Up', 'i Won't Worry My Life Away' And 'i Won't Hesitate No More', Using These Lyrics To Change My Experience. That Is, I Believe, What Makes Me Seem Like A Positive Person.

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