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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.

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Jason Mraz
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: June 23
Composer
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Richmond
Virginia
Jason Thomas Mraz
Taught
Read
Crappy
Write
Reminders
Music
Version
Self
Versions
Writing
Musician
Kind
Weak
Playing

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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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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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It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
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