Matisyahu famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Ideas #Reggae #Music Is
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
-- Matisyahu

#Religious #Trying #Helpful
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
-- Matisyahu

#Rain #Eye #Sunshine
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.
-- Matisyahu

#Thinking #Sight #People
I am reclaiming myself.Â Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
-- Matisyahu

#Goodness #Divine #Missions
Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
-- Matisyahu

#Song #Opinion #Let Me
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
-- Matisyahu

#Digging #Shows
Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.
-- Matisyahu

#Spiritual #Growing Up #Past
Whoâ€™s gonna make you happy when youâ€™re your own worst enemy?
-- Matisyahu

#Enemy #Make You Happy #Worst
The idea that Godâ€™s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if Iâ€™m deserving of Godâ€™s mercy, Iâ€™ll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard,
-- Matisyahu

#Ideas #Beard #Needs
At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
-- Matisyahu

#Moving #Fall #Order
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.
-- Matisyahu

#Kids #Boys #Oregon
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.
-- Matisyahu

#Jobs #Home #Who I Am
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
-- Matisyahu

#Song #Thinking #Bob
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
-- Matisyahu

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #Hip Hop
When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.
-- Matisyahu

#Godly #Light #Shining
My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.
-- Matisyahu

#Music Is #Ideology
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.
-- Matisyahu

#Black And White #Different #World
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.
-- Matisyahu

#Children #War #Fighting
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
-- Matisyahu

#Book
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.
-- Matisyahu

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

#Get Well #Sky #Helping

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