Top 30 Brandon Boyd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.”

— Brandon Boyd

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2. “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

3. “Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.”

— Brandon Boyd

4. “The world’s a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.”

— Brandon Boyd

5. “Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can’t make up my mind.”

— Brandon Boyd

6. “I haven’t felt the way I feel today in so long.”

— Brandon Boyd

7. “You’re always first when no one’s on your side.”

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8. “I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.”

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9. “The world is a drought when out of love.”

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10. “All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.”

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11. “Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.”

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

— Brandon Boyd

13. “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.”

— Brandon Boyd

14. “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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15. “I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?”

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16. “I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.”

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17. “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

18. “I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.”

— Brandon Boyd

19. “Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind.”

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20. “I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can’t walk somewhere, I’ll bike or skateboard.”

— Brandon Boyd

21. “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

22. “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

23. “Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.”

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24. “Shakira’s music isn’t my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.”

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25. “As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.”

— Brandon Boyd

26. “I ain’t affraid to let it out, i’m not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.”

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27. “Never underestimate a dumb question.”

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28. “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

29. “Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It’s an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.”

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30. “Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.”

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31. “Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.”

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32. “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