Jack Johnson

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I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Thinking
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We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: School
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We're all related. We're all a family.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Related
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When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Issues
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Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Future
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I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Writing
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The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Future
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Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Team
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It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Mean
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I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Kids
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I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Guitar
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You better hope you’re not alone.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Not Alone
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When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Song
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Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Ocean
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All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Art
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I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Feet
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I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Fighting
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A billion people died on the news tonight.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Art
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His dreams are like commercials.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Dream
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Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Fun
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Some fighter’s waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn’t amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Opportunity
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She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Dream
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It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it just feels like they have an appreciation for the joy of life and must be an okay person.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Appreciation
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People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Lonely
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Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Art
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I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Song
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I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Thinking
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Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Running
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The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Character
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When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Interviews
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I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Ocean
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Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Art
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I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: People
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Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Song
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The music brings me confidence and freedom. It's also the thing that can make me feel the most vulnerable. Once I finish writing all the songs for an album, once I actually record them, that whole process is usually easy and enjoyable. The part where I feel the most vulnerable is when it's all finished, I can make no more changes, I've turned it in, and there's no going back. All of a sudden I hear the songs in a different way; that's when I feel vulnerable.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Song
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I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Thinking
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To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Nice
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I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Fighting
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Plato's cave is full of freaks.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Plato
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Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Thinking
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He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Men
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I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Song
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We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Reality
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The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Fighting
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Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Training
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The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Song
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Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Couple
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Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Fun
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Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
- Jack Johnson
Collection: Art