Matisyahu Quotes

I feel like there's so many voices, and it's necessary for there to be a lot of different voices because we can't all like the same art. That would just be so boring... If anybody wants to hear it, I'm here. It makes for a more interesting world for there to be more than one kind of singer.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

We have abandoned the claim to have a monopoly on the truth.

I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

I believe it's important for us to have a diverse and free approach to making games in the way that we like.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think any man can be that way - if you love enough interesting things.

People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.