Matt Berninger Quotes

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• Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.
• I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.
• There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for…
• I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.
• Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and…
• Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.
• People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate.
• The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely…
• A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
• I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties…
• A suit is a sign of respect.
• My favourite store? Seize Sur Vingt in New York. They make most of my suits, and they are really cool people.
• Sometimes you have to wear what you want.
• When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any…
• I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me…

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