Jason Mraz Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

• I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Ease, Sacred

  "Talk Asia" with Sarah Sidner, edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2012.

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Yoga, Walking Meditation

• By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Song, Kids, Thinking

• 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 something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Love You, Generosity

• 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 stuff I choose to share.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Self

• Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.

  Jason Mraz

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Jason Mraz Goes to School". Christina Fuoco, Rolling Stone, September 2, 2007.

• 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

  Song, Memories, Memorable

• I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Thinking, Play

• 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

  Song, Home, Feelings

• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Passion, Play

  Source: www.nolivelost.com

• 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

  Song, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Overcoming, Realization

• Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

• When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.timeout.com

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Light, Voice

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• 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

  Song, Encouragement, Laughter

• Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Get Better

• 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

  Song, Fall, Writing

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

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Knowing, People

  Source: www.timeout.com

• 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

  Song, Writing, Events

• You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Hands, People

  "Talk Asia". www.cnn.com. November 16, 2012.

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: www.cnn.com

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Girl, Song, Years

  Source: www.timeout.com

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