Words matter. These are the best Brandon Boyd Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have always idolized eccentric people.
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
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.
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
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.
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you’re somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing – we’re domesticated apes with a microphone.
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl – now that is worth looking up to.
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.
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.
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it’s done.
Big Brother is watching… look busy.
I’m sure we’ll be Tweetin’ up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.
I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that’s something to smile about.
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
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.
When we make records, it’s hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It’s usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.
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.
I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.
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.
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.
I’ll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It’s a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
It’s great to want to be part of something, but it’s a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
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.
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss… whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.
