Matt Bellamy Quotes

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

That's my mission: I really want to get in the heads and hearts of kids and persuade them that they can believe things they haven't seen, they can do things that maybe others haven't done before them, that they are more than their worst acts.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I believe in making your own opportunity.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Follow your own star!

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.