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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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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