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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.
Jason Mraz
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Jason Mraz
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: June 23
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Richmond
Virginia
Jason Thomas Mraz
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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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It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
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If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.
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EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.
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As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.
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I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.
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There's no shame in being crazy.
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When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.
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When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.
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Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up
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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
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