Top 180 Jason Mraz Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.”

— Jason Mraz

152. “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

153. “When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.”

— Jason Mraz

154. “Other people’s lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.”

— Jason Mraz

155. “Quite simply I’ve distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I’m really here to do is shine light on people’s lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.”

— Jason Mraz

156. “I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.”

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157. “The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone’s life – that right there is proof that it’s working. It makes me feel great, it really does.”

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158. “I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.”

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159. “As an American citizen, one has to vote.”

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160. “I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.”

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161. “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.”

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162. “Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn’t feel like a job. So I did that.”

— Jason Mraz

163. “I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.”

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164. “I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.”

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165. “I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.”

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166. “Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can’t tell what year the thing was made. And you don’t even care.”

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167. “Everything in life influences my music.”

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168. “I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can’t sleep.”

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169. “The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.”

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170. “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

171. “If I’m in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.”

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172. “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.”

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173. “I look around my life and it’s hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.”

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174. “It’s through my health that I’m able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I’m actually of service to others.”

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175. “When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that’s when I get compelled – something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.”

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176. “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.”

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177. “I can’t predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.”

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178. “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.”

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179. “I had never made a record before, so I didn’t know anything about it. I don’t know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.”

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180. “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.”

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181. “There’s nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.”

— Jason Mraz

182. “Let go the thought that cannot make you strong.”

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183. “I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I’ve got to treat myself like an athlete.”

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184. “My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.”

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185. “I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.”

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186. “I’m always thinking about the next record. I’ve got like 20 different themes and then I’ll scratch the themes. It’s a learning process.”

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187. “Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It’s also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.”

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188. “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.”

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189. “Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.”

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190. “A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one’s family, a love for where one’s really from.”

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191. “To create an album of 12 songs, I’ve got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.”

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192. “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.”

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193. “I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there’s no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.”

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194. “I didn’t want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that’s not me.”

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195. “My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he’s getting calls from girls to see if I’m home!”

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196. “I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren’t 21 and couldn’t get into the clubs, you’d go to a coffeehouse and hang out.”

— Jason Mraz