Mat Kearney Quotes

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

All I can say is what I believe.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

As a species, we're always seeking out authenticity. We're dying for authenticity. We smell it immediately, and we also smell even the slightest riff of somebody who's not completely true to who they are. We have that ability because, as a species, we have organized around stories. We tell them and we subscribe to them.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Authenticity resonates with people. The industry can be very misleading and is built to make people believe what they see. But people aren't dumb they can see through that and I think real music and real people resonate.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.