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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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 power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Lying, Singing

  "Al Gore Rhythms" by Jason Mraz, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

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

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Healing, Writing

• I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.cnn.com

• 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

  Song, Mean, Albums

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Ideas

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Tired, Bored

  "Yes! Jason Mraz returns to his 'coffeehouse performer' roots". Interview with Mike Nunez, www.floridatoday.com. February 11, 2015.

• 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

  Song, Writing, Albums

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Style, Trying

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