Brandon Boyd Quotes

• We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.

  Brandon Boyd

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Time, Live

• Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn’t come out the same if we’re not really excited about it.

  Brandon Boyd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying, Artists

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Known, Spinning

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Thought

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Difference

• I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that’s something to smile about.

  Brandon Boyd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Feel

• 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

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Action

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interested

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• 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.

  Brandon Boyd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artist

• Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it’s done.

  Brandon Boyd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confusion

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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