The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the… — 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
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
For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I… — 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
I think when you're a fan of music - at least the way I've been a fan to artists that have really… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews… — 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 Copy Share Image
I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where I feel like… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the… — Matisyahu 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
I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I… — Matisyahu 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
My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians,… — Matisyahu 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
I thank you to my God, now I finally got it right and I'll fight with all of my heart and all my soul… — 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 to work… — Matisyahu 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 think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to… — 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 a teenager,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
In this life you may lose your way. It might drive you crazy but don't let it phase you, no way. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I started wearing a yarmulke, I wanted to stand out or take the form of whatever was inspiring me. But now I think… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
