Matisyahu Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 from.”

“I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.”

“The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.”

“When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.”

“The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.”

“The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.”

“My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.”

“There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.”

“When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.”

“One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do.”