Matisyahu Quotes

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Bob Marley was always ready to deal with the politics of what was happening in the world but, at the same time, not lose sight of the fact that he's a musician.

I still have a dream.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Without hope we are lost.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

At the end of the day, you can't take my love for my people away.

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

It is at least as important to know what we are fighting for as what we are fighting against.