Quotes by Brandon Boyd - Page 2

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Girl
America
Thinking
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Art
Creator
Female
Female Artists
Perfect
Writing
Life Art More
Basic
Bodies
Perfect Example
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Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Creative
Drawing
Visual
Pursuits
Solving
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When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Different Things
Inspiration
Inspires
Pinpoint
Wanting
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Men
Female
Lennon
Melody
Voice
Writing
Ape
Domesticated
John
Microphone
Suited
Tom
Tom Waits
Unless
Waits
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I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Artist
Creative People
People
Thinking
Uncertainty
Willingness
Distinguishes
Headlong
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What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Bike
Performing
Riding
Muscle
Acts
Music Face Me
Memory
Sang
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I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Bottled Water
Sustainability
Bottled
Concept
Cultural
Dollar
Leading
Transitions
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I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Believe
Heart
Play
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People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Sheep
Smart
Stupid
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It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Live Music
New Music
Old Music
Reactions
Standing
Camera
Young People
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Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Doors
Important
People
Life Money Music
Back Door
Concept
Door
Excites
Generously
Necessarily
Reward
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I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Looks
Skins
Stronger
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There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Creativity
Goal
Wings
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Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Christian
Giving Up
Mean
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Band
Democratic
Democratic Process
Effort
Play
Process
Solo
Collaborative
In The End
Parts
Plays
Recently
Respective
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To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Draws
Identical
Intangible
Paintbrush
Pulling
Art Music Me
Almost
Nobody
Difference
Ether
Sort
Pen
Wants
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That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Morning
Fall
Sea
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Ocean
Currents
Discarded
Forgotten
Millions
Moving
Our World
Plastic
Soup
Spinning
Waste
Exists
Slowly
Oceans
Tons
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Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Accomplishment
Creativity
Self Worth
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No regrets. Never never any regrets. Everything has been an experience and has led to me now. Everything has been important and essential. Fear... I'm afraid of what people, including myself, are capable of, but it also excites me. I'm afraid of the atrocities that we are capable of and the things that can happen if everyone makes decisions based on fear.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Decision
People
Regret
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