Matisyahu Quotes

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

Matisyahu

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LoveMusicGodPeopleThank GodWhy

I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

Jess Row

JusticeSayingThinkPoliticalDone

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

Jerry Reinsdorf

SchoolHigh SchoolClassHigh

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

John Lydon

DisciplineIdeasSongYouKnowKind

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

RulesAbuseRepublicMustTolerate

Nice is different than good.

Stephen Sondheim

GoodNiceDifferentThan

I would love to work with Morgan Freeman. I love him.

Stephanie Sigman

WorkLoveHimWouldMorganI Love

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.

Siri Hustvedt

LiveCultureBrainWorldTalking

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

LiveGreatWorldHonorWayPretend

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

Ronald Frame

MeThinkTen YearsPersonDefeated

In violence, we forget who we are.

Mary McCarthy

ViolenceForgetWho

Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life.

Lucy Dacus

LifePeopleMomentsEasyYouStop

There was just so much attention that got focused on my story, and what that created was an opportunity for me to share what were the tools, what were the strategies, what was the thinking that had me break though those boundaries.

Liz Murray

OpportunityMeStoryThinkingTools

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