Matisyahu Quotes

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

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

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

A lot of people believe a lot of things. People also believe in a lot of ideas or hold tight to a lot of ideologies and beliefs.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

Life will go on without you, because in the end it's not about you.

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