Brandon Boyd Quotes

• I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

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• I’m sure we’ll be Tweetin’ up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.

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• I’ve actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

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• My parents are wonderful, and I’m really lucky – but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

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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.

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• 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.

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• The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

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• I’ve been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I’ve been writing music – and I’ve actually been drawing longer than I’ve been writing music.

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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.

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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.

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• I have always idolized eccentric people.

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• I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

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• I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

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• Big Brother is watching… look busy.

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• I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.

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• I’ll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It’s a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

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• It’s great to want to be part of something, but it’s a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

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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.

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• No one’s played on the moon yet. No one’s played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we’d very much like to do that in the near future.

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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.

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Brandon Boyd (32)

Birth:	15th February, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Author, Composer, Musician, Singer

About

Brandon Boyd was born in Van Nuys, California. He is an American musician, author, and visual artist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus. He has written three books. The first, written in 2003, was White Fluffy Clouds. On July 6, 2010, Boyd announced that his debut solo album, The Wild Trapeze was released. On January 18, 2013 Brandon announced his new band, Sons of the Sea. With Incubus on indefinite hiatus, Sons of the Sea will tour 2013 and 2014. On May 29, 2013 Brandon released a teaser video announcing the name of the album, Sons of the Sea.

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