If you're trying to stay high, then you're bound to stay low. You want God but you can't deflate your ego. — Matisyahu Ego Copy Share Image
One day we'll all be free and proud. To be under the same sun. Singing songs of freedom like. — Matisyahu Freedom Copy Share Image
Me no want no Sinsemilla, that would only bring me down. Burn away my brain, no way, my brain is too compound. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“Life will go on without you, because in the end it's not about you.” — Matisyahu Inspirational quotes Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
If you're drowning out in the waters and you can't stay afloat. Ask Hashem for mercy and he'll throw you a rope. — Matisyahu Compassion Copy Share Image
I'll stand on my own two feet, won't be brought down on one knee. I'll fight with all of my might and… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material… — Matisyahu Birth Copy Share Image
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole… — Matisyahu Art Copy Share Image
It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Say, Torah food for my brain, let it rain till I drown. Thunder, let the blessings come down. Say, Torah food for… — Matisyahu Blessings Copy Share Image
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and… — Matisyahu Being human Copy Share Image
Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Whenever I approach a record, I don't really have a science to it. I approach every record differently. First record was in… — Matisyahu Approach Copy Share Image
With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I felt a real strong connection and still do with Hanukkah. So it started out by doing concerts on Hanukkah, the Festival… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it's about being… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as… — Matisyahu Acting Copy Share Image
Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living. — Matisyahu Inspirational Copy Share Image
Out of darkness comes light, a twilight unto the heights. Crown heights burnin' up all through the twilight. — Matisyahu Darkness Copy Share Image
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
It's not about win or lose 'cause we all lose. When they feed on the souls of the innocent blood. Drenched pavement… — Matisyahu Battle Copy Share Image
When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks… — Matisyahu Alive Copy Share Image
Caught up in these ways, and the worlds gone craz.e Don't you know it's just a phase. Case of the Simon says… — Matisyahu Truth Copy Share Image
I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I… — Matisyahu Acting Copy Share Image
I still believe there is a lot of truth in Orthodox Judaism, but not the whole truth. Each person has his truth… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Like a king without his crown, yes, I wanna get down. A king without his crown, yes, you keep fallin' down. You… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland'… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The idea that God’s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
