Matisyahu Quotes

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.