Quotes by Brandon Boyd

About Brandon Boyd:

Brandon Charles Boyd is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author, and visual artist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus.
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

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. ...

Brandon Boyd

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

Brandon Boyd

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light.

Brandon Boyd

I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

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 mone...

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Brandon Boyd

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

Brandon Boyd

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

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

Brandon Boyd

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.

Brandon Boyd

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrandon Boyd
  • DescriptionAmerican singer, writer and artist
  • BornFebruary 15, 1976
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Musician