Matisyahu Quotes

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.