Matisyahu Quotes

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• You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
• The idea that God’s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you…
• We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and…
• All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll…
• Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
• The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
• Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard…
• Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not…
• Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
• I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they…
• Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.
• My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.
• When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you…
• The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
• I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
• My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I…
• I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus'…
• At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept…
• I am reclaiming myself.  Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
• Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

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