Matisyahu Quotes

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• I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

  Matisyahu

  Digging, Shows, I Can

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• I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

  Matisyahu

  Thinking, Sight, People

  "Q&A:Singer Matisyahu exorcises his demons in 'the possession'". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

  Matisyahu

  World, Wonderful, Vulnerable

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

  Matisyahu

  Book

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• The beauty of life is not knowing.

  Matisyahu

  Knowing, Not Knowing, Life Is

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• Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

  Matisyahu

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Make You Happy

  "The Chief of Transformation" by Sharon Rosen Leib, sdjewishjournal.com. April 1, 2015.

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• Reach for the sky
  Keep your eye on the prize
  Forever in my mind
  Be my golden sunshine
  It's raining in your mind
  So push them clouds aside
  Forever by my side
  You're my golden sunshine

  Matisyahu

  Rain, Eye, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: Spark Seeker, 2012

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• There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.

  Matisyahu

  Religious, Real, Party

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

  Matisyahu

  Song, Opinion, Let Me

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• All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

  Matisyahu

  Children, War, Fighting

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• We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

  Matisyahu

  Black And White, Different, World

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• What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

  Matisyahu

  Blow, People

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

  Matisyahu

  Godly, Light, Shining

  "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

  Matisyahu

  Goodness, Divine, Missions

  "Matisyahu Apologizes for Attacking Photographer". www.rollingstone.com. December 22, 2011.

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• For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

  Matisyahu

  Knows

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Matisyahu

  Religious, Trying, Helpful

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• Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Reggae, Music Is

  "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Needs, Beard

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• At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

  Matisyahu

  Moving, Fall, Order

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• It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

  Matisyahu

  People, Unbelievable

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

  Matisyahu

  Artist, Style, Bob

  "Matisyahu talks about his new religious outlook and appearance". Interview with Daniel Hoffman, www.jta.org. March 13, 2013.

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• You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

  Matisyahu

  Get Well, Sky, Helping

  Song: King Without A Crown

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• 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.

  Matisyahu

  Jobs, Home, Who I Am

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. December 10, 2009.

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

  Matisyahu

  Self, Tools, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

  Matisyahu

  Vulnerable, Attraction

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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