Latest Matisyahu Quotes from Interviews

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

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  People, Unbelievable

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.

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  People, Caught, Blown Away

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

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  Moments, True You, Being True

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• The beauty of life is not knowing.

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  Knowing, Not Knowing, Life Is

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

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  Knows

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

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  Religious, Real, Party

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

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  Blow, People

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.

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  Religious, Believe, Fall

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• A lot of people believe a lot of things. People also believe in a lot of ideas or hold tight to a lot of ideologies and beliefs.

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  Believe, Ideas, People

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There are a lot of people who get me. There are a lot of people who don't. I wouldn't say there is one thing that everyone is missing. But there are a good amount[b] of people who don't necessarily understand the recent changes I have made.

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  People, Missing, Made

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

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  Vulnerable, Attraction

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.

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  Godly, Space, Order

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

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  World, Wonderful, Vulnerable

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Today, I wanted to spend some time reading and responding to comments of fans on my Facebook page. Yes, there are great comments, but there are also a lot of people who are very opinionated and judgmental. So, initially, when I read these judgmental comments, I don't feel vulnerable, but rather I get defensive. But once I get past that anger, it sort of becomes hurt. It becomes pain.

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  Hurt, Pain, Reading

• I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

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  Reading, People, Vulnerable

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

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  Art, Artist, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

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  Meaningful, Song, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Self, Tools, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

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  Coffee, Home, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

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  Hockey, Player, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

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  Communication, People, Speech

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com