Josh Groban Quotes

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks, and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun. It was probably fun when we played Performance Studio, and maybe some of the early gigs at CBGB's. But the Ramones were the type of group that had a bizarre mindset. Being in the band was so cut off from reality.

It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!

What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

loneliness has its own needs!