All Matthew Sweet Quotes
- 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,… Bigger
- I believe in nature instead of God. Believe
- 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… Business
- 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… Accordion
- I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. Connected
- 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… Direction
- 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… All
- 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… Became
- 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… Certainly Influenced
- 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… Bucks
- 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… Allusion
- 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… Best
- 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… Appreciate
- 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… Become Part
- 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.… Been
- 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… Appeals
- I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past. Blow
- In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try. Even Want
- They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines. Art
- You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down. Art
- Wavering and burning like a golden lie. Burning
- The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. Birthday
- I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke… Back Stage
- He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird… Added
- First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length… Any