Matisyahu Quotes

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

I think when I started my first album, I was 17 or 18, so I guess I was basically a child.

We've always tried to inspire ourselves, so to speak. In the beginning, that could mean just hearing your own songs played back to you for the very first time.

I really was thinking a lot about the energy on the first couple records that we ever put out and how young and excited we were. I just really wanted to make it more fun than anything.

I've been blessed to work with so many wonderful musicians and engineers and friends over the years.

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

Money is a resource for me and it is needed to make music.

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

One of my dreams is to work with Ilaiyaraaja sir and do more with Anirudh and Santhosh Narayanan.

As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.