Josh Groban Quotes
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.
I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.
When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'
Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.
No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.
The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.
Even with our differences There is a place we're all connected Each of us can find each other's light, There's so much to be thankful for.
I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.
Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.
Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.
I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
My biggest blast-off hit was "You Raise Me Up." If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.
It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.
When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.
There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.
I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.
I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.
I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.
I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.
I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.
My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.