Matisyahu Quotes

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Music is universal; it's healing.

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

Your voice and music are the same to me.

I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.