All Matisyahu Quotes
- You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground. Beneath
- 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… Beard
- 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… Black
- 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… All
- Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living. Inspirational
- The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene. Focused
- 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… Always Trying
- 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… Artist
- Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge. Book
- 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… Belief
- Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are. Ideas
- My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth. Ideology
- 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… Alive
- The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll. Clubs
- I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. Bob
- 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… Better
- 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'… Acting
- 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… Accept
- I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission. Divine
- Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy? Enemy
- There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that… Bit
- I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was… Amsterdam
- When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that… All
- As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I… Acting
- I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious.… Acting