When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. — Matisyahu Bible Copy Share Image
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge. — Matisyahu Book Copy Share Image
With these demons surround all around to bring me down to negativity but I believe, yes I believe, I said, ?I believe? — Matisyahu Negativity Copy Share Image
You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know. You want to live the fast life but your brain moves slow. — Matisyahu Fast life Copy Share Image
Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one. — Matisyahu Education Copy Share Image
If you're already there, then there's nowhere to go. If you're cup's already full, then it's bound to overflow. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Elevated my soul, you're a flying my sound. Like the sun of a sun ray burning up through a cloud. — Matisyahu Spirituality 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
I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a… — Matisyahu Acting Copy Share Image
I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but… — 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
There are a lot of people who get me. There are a lot of people who don't. I wouldn't say there is… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt… — Matisyahu Amsterdam Copy Share Image
There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're… — 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
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 first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — 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
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
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
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
Sometimes I lay under the moon and I thank God I'm breathin' Then I pray don't take me soon 'Cause I am… — Matisyahu Moon Copy Share Image
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene. — Matisyahu Focused Copy Share Image
It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to… — 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
I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns… — Matisyahu Birth 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 Album Copy Share Image
I get on a real serious health kick when I'm on the road, because as a singer, you can't really get sick.… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
All my life i've been waiting for, i've been praying for, all the people to say, that we don't want to fight… — Matisyahu Anti war Copy Share Image
Jerusalem, if I forget you, fire not gonna come from me tongue. Jerusalem, if I forget you, let my right hand forget… — Matisyahu Fire Copy Share Image
We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that… — 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
I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your… — Matisyahu Being Copy Share Image
All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight… — Matisyahu Children 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… — Matisyahu Being 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 Being a better person Copy Share Image
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