Jason Mraz Quotes (37 Quotes)

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

I encourage the players to simply feel what they feel and relay that on tape. The outcome was brighter than I could have ever imagined.

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.

I don't know what the music is gonna do, ... It may bring peace and harmony to the entire world or it may cause the next world war. I just don't know.

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.

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

It's been a year since I wrote and recorded 'Mr. A-Z,' so it's only natural that I'm already thinking of the next one. I require a great amount of meditation to have to hit the road performing those songs from 'Mr. A-Z' since to me it's so last year. To make up for this living in the past I have to be creating for the present to satisfy my soul, thus making the future a place I look forward to going.

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.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

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 goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

They need a new song like a new religion, music for the television,

Singing and music was my only talent. I've been blessed with this talent. I'm quite pleased with how it all came out,

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

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

I hit puberty, ... No, I don't know what it is but I don't really hear a difference in the sound. I think the overall theme and message, and even the colors, are pretty much the same. The only thing that's evolved is time and experience.

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.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

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.

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.

I didn't want to recreate an old song, like Missy (Elliot) or Madonna. The black-and-white ad has become an American tradition,

That was my grandfather. People would use it as a directional landmark. He was kind of a junkman, that Mr. Frank Mraz. He worked on farm equipment and random things. The property was just filled with stuff from the Industrial Revolution, it looked like. My dad lives a mile from there. That's where I grew up. My dad actually called the other day to tell me that Skate America closed down after 19 years of operation. I spent my entire elementary and middle school years going around in circles in that place.

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.

Tonight, Not Again Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I've always been happy. I've just been loving doing this. It's just great. I couldn't ask for anything more. I've great friends and family.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

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

In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

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.

Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.

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

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.

It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.