Matt Bellamy

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

— Matt Bellamy

I always go for walks in the countryside.

— Matt Bellamy

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

— Matt Bellamy

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

— Matt Bellamy

“Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music”

— Matt Bellamy

Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production.…

— Matt Bellamy

I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He…

— Matt Bellamy

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

— Matt Bellamy

The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.

— Matt Bellamy

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But…

— Matt Bellamy

I experienced the sharp end of a tough time, living with a single parent, my mum, and she was really struggling to…

— Matt Bellamy

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same…

— Matt Bellamy

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their…

— Matt Bellamy

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin…

— Matt Bellamy

I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's…

— Matt Bellamy

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album…

— Matt Bellamy

As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits…

— Matt Bellamy

“It’s like um… I’ve become used to change I think from my life, when I was younger when I lived with my…

— Matt Bellamy

“And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each…

— Matt Bellamy

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start…

— Matt Bellamy

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

— Matt Bellamy

I can understand why people are bad.

— Matt Bellamy

You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.

— Matt Bellamy

Dont waste time or time will waste you.

— Matt Bellamy

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

— Matt Bellamy

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling…

— Matt Bellamy

I've spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there - falling in love, stuff…

— Matt Bellamy

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had…

— Matt Bellamy

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.

— Matt Bellamy

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular…

— Matt Bellamy

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

— Matt Bellamy

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going…

— Matt Bellamy

Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be…

— Matt Bellamy

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are…

— Matt Bellamy

Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a…

— Matt Bellamy

I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the…

— Matt Bellamy

In the U.S., the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the Right to try to take down people like Obama and…

— Matt Bellamy

Money and success haven't really changed my beliefs or opinions over the years. When I was growing up, my mum and dad…

— Matt Bellamy

I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done…

— Matt Bellamy

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having…

— Matt Bellamy