Matt Costa famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.
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My first songs, I would just record them on this little tape recorder, and then I didn't start recording songs I really liked until my friend gave me a 4-track (recorder) and that's when my ideas really started coming together.
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I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do.
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You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.
-- Matt Costa
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I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
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You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.
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Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.
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Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.
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I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
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I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
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Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
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... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.
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