Brandon Boyd Quotes

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

Dance should touch people.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Music inspires me.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

What we play is life.

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.

I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

What do any of us really know about love?

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.