Latest Matt Berninger Quotes from Interviews

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• I'd say recording and playing on stage are two completely different things. Being up in front of all people is like jumping off a cliff into icy water. The recording process is a totally different energy.

  Matt Berninger

  Water, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Beach, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Writing, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

  Matt Berninger

  Children, Boring

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

  Matt Berninger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you realize that the baby's healthy and born, it's a release and you're so happy.

  Matt Berninger

  Healthy, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.

  Matt Berninger

  Sadness, Feelings, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Writing, Band

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2006.

• I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

  Matt Berninger

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2006.

• I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

  Matt Berninger

  Jobs, Fun, Nice

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2006.

• It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Emotional, Singing

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2010.

• A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Different, Vocal

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2010.

• Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

  Matt Berninger

  Light, Way, Stage

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Pits, Bulls

  "Back to School With Walter Martin" by Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

• I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

  Matt Berninger

  Fun, Focus, Having Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

  Matt Berninger

  Home, Writing, Years

  "Back to School With Walter Martin" by Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

• I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.

  Matt Berninger

  Real, Nice, Character

• I can never turn a tour into a vacation.

  Matt Berninger

  Vacation, Turns, I Can

• Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Real, Writing

• Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

  Matt Berninger

  People, Community, Together

• I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

  Matt Berninger

  Thinking, Guy, Balance

• My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

  Matt Berninger

  Kids, Dark, Parent

• I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.

  Matt Berninger

  Caring, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: the-talks.com

• A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Connected, Ifs

  Source: the-talks.com

• It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

  Matt Berninger

  Writing, Important, Stories

  Source: the-talks.com