Jack Johnson

Musician

Jack Johnson is a singer-songwriter known for his acoustic sound and lyrics that explore love, life, and environmentalism, particularly through his album 'Brushfire Fairytales.'

Born
May 18, 1975
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"We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time."

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"A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely."

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"The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations"

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"Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything."

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"Home is wherever we are if there's love here too"

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"Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change."

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"Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside."

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"Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take."

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"Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time."

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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."

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"Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon."

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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."

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"What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it."

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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."

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"Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that's love. It's when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier."

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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."

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