Matthew Sweet Quotes

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• Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success,…
• I believe in nature instead of God.
• It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my…
• He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ…
• I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
• Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I…
• So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans…
• It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead…
• The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It…
• I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at…
• I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a…
• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have…
• I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different…
• There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my…
• When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot.…
• When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and…
• I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.
• In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.
• They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.
• You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

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