Top 180 Jason Mraz Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.”

— Jason Mraz

102. “Anything that we’re connecting with that’s happening right now, there’s an obvious vulnerability – because we’re just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.”

— Jason Mraz

103. “Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It’s weird. We have to call it “love,” because we have to call it something, but it’s not a word. It’s an energy. It’s an act. It’s an action. It’s a natural thing.”

— Jason Mraz

104. “Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line.”

— Jason Mraz

105. “If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.”

— Jason Mraz

106. “It’s when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you’ve made it.”

— Jason Mraz

107. “I’m not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.”

— Jason Mraz

108. “For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community’s health decline, and I didn’t want that to happen to me.”

— Jason Mraz

109. “You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.”

— Jason Mraz

110. “Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.”

— Jason Mraz

111. “New York City has the most beautiful women.”

— Jason Mraz

112. “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

113. “I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.”

— Jason Mraz

114. “What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I’ve ever done.”

— Jason Mraz

115. “I think surprises are what’s great about life: “WHOA! I didn’t see that coming!””

— Jason Mraz

116. “But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.”

— Jason Mraz

117. “When we all sing in unison – sing in harmony – things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.”

— Jason Mraz

118. “If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.”

— Jason Mraz

119. “Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.”

— Jason Mraz

120. “You’re letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it’s easier said than done.”

— Jason Mraz

121. “Well, I’ve been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.”

— Jason Mraz

122. “I’ve always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.”

— Jason Mraz

123. “I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.”

— Jason Mraz

124. “I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.”

— Jason Mraz

125. “I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.”

— Jason Mraz

126. “My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets.”

— Jason Mraz

127. “Whenever there’s a camera in my face, that’s when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.”

— Jason Mraz

128. “I recently read that it’s the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I’ve veered way towards the left. I’ve been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.”

— Jason Mraz

129. “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

130. “As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don’t vote, we’re not doing our part. We’ll become some sort of oligarchy.”

— Jason Mraz

131. “When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn’t on the radio or TV.”

— Jason Mraz

132. “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

133. “Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it’s so easy for me to share that and it’s such a light.”

— Jason Mraz

134. “I’ve been compared to people since the beginning. When you’re starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.”

— Jason Mraz

135. “Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.”

— Jason Mraz

136. “Well, for me, what I’ve learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.”

— Jason Mraz

137. “I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.”

— Jason Mraz

138. “I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.”

— Jason Mraz

139. “Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people’s faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.”

— Jason Mraz

140. “I’m a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I’m playing.”

— Jason Mraz

141. “I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.”

— Jason Mraz

142. “I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I’m immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it’s such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.”

— Jason Mraz

143. “Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.”

— Jason Mraz

144. “And it’s our God-forsaken right to be loved.”

— Jason Mraz

145. “I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.”

— Jason Mraz

146. “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

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

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148. “Getting on stage is a bonus, that’s my therapy, that’s when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.”

— Jason Mraz

149. “Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.”

— Jason Mraz

150. “I’ll experience vulnerability when I just don’t have any more to give.”

— Jason Mraz