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Matisyahu Quotes

American - Musician | June 30, 1979 -

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

Music Amazing Me Self Emotion Tool

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

Music Words Spiritual Humility Think

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

Love Music Time Singing Kid Always

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

School Friends Jewish Existence Up

I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.

Family Good World Road Think Doing

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

Ideas World Jewish Normal Becoming

One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do.

Music Together Song Adapt Places

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

Music Trying You Lifestyle Focused

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

Music People Jewish Connecting Even

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

Life Home Music God Day Job

The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

Music People Think Feel Trying Kind

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.

Faith Writing Year Career Kind Way

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