Quotes by Matt Bellamy - Page 1

I always go for walks in the countryside.
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Countryside
Walks
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You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.
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Boredom
Evolve
Stagnation
Breeds
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The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.
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Queen
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Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.
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Opera
Pompous
Exceptionally
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I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.
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Openly
Songwriter
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I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.
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Humour
Obvious
Contain
Cracking
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There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.
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Elements
Classical
Our Music
Slight
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I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place.
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Better Place
Women World Better
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Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.
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Aspect
Rock Music
Nineties
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For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.
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Evolution
Hitting
Species
Ceiling
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I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.
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Understood
Influenced
Narrow
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As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.
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Instruments
Foot
Rock Band
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The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.
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Good Thing
Instrument
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Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
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Edge
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Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.
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Breathe
Small Town
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'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular basis.
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Uprising
Rallies
Regular Basis
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I've spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there - falling in love, stuff like that.
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Falling In Love
Greece
Spain
Life Love My Life
Life Love Important
Falling
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In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.
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Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
Humans
Long
Purpose
Term
Much
Feeling
Gives
Over
Taking
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I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
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Concentration
Confinement
Recurring
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Camp
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I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life.
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Reflection
Scenario
Something Else
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I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'
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Boards
Sorrow
Asked
Replied
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Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back.
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Gambling
Essentially
Stadium
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In the U.S., the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the Right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism.
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Conspiracy
Subculture
Hijacked
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A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.
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Human Error
Precise
Actual
Error
Maintain
Programmed
Synthesizer
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I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.
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Twin
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Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.
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Succeed
Weakness
Condition
Withdraw
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I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.
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Blow
Classical Composers
Claiming
Composers
Crowd
Explosion
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I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us.
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Band
Lucky
Three
Young Age
Guys
Happen
Rock
Rock Band
Spoils
Such A Young Age
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This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.
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Caught
Desire
Evolve
Humanity
Inner Strength
Scary
Love Time Strength
Scale
Expand
Explore
Global
Inner
Same Time
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Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?
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Efficient
Labour
Modern Age
Ruined
Bracket
Hundred Years
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I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's a rare kind of thing to have that level of wisdom. And his lyrics are just astounding; everything in life is inside his lyrics.
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Life Wisdom Love
Astounding
Rare
Tom
Tom Waits
Waits
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When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.
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Broke
Dominant
Teenage
Teenage Years
Survive
To Survive
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I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well with that dance-type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar, and I've always wanted to find that.
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Black Hole
Clubs
Alternative
Done Always Guitar
Guitar Always Done
Ferdinand
Hole
Mixed
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Money and success haven't really changed my beliefs or opinions over the years. When I was growing up, my mum and dad split when I was 13 or 14, during the early-Nineties recession. At that time, my dad went bankrupt, and it played a huge part in it all at home.
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Dad
Changed
Growing Up
Huge
Mum
Success Time Money
Played
Beliefs
Huge Part
Opinions
Recession
Split
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As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.
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Bass
Electric
Familiar
Instruments
Legendary
Established
Drum
Essentially
Recorded
Stadium
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Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work.
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Imaginative
Sensitivity
Shyness
Stimulus
Work Thoughts Your
Accumulate
Worlds
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Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.
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Itunes
Meaningless
Streaming
Collection
Apple
Concept
Easy Thing
Services
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Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music.
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Atheist
Influence
Spread
Realise
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I experienced the sharp end of a tough time, living with a single parent, my mum, and she was really struggling to get a job. These are the things that form your views in life. They are established when you are growing up and being raised. That stuff doesn't really go away; that stays with you.
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Mum
Parent
Single Parent
Views
Life Time Your
Established
Life Time Living
Experienced
Go Away
Sharp
Stays
Struggling
Tough Time
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I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.
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Albums
Battle
Patterns
Theme
Forces
Life Experiences
Oppressive
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People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.
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Uplifting
Doom
Joy
Over The Top
Valuable
Extreme
Music Soul People
Cave
Expressing
Nick
Putting
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The universe, in a big bang mode, is still expanding, which means it's cooling down, and evolution seems to be going against this; we're almost battling it. That led me on to a more creative, philosophical way of thinking, which is what led into influencing some of the songs, which is, maybe this is what our struggle is.
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Cooling
Expanding
Philosophical
Bang
Battling
Big Bang
Influencing
Mode
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When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to.
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Current Events
Helplessness
Current
Dabble
Dealt
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I don't totally buy or believe the paradigm that's constantly presented to us and the financial news is obsessed with, which is growth. There seems to be this paradigm which is: There has to be growth. I'm watching it and thinking, am I the only one who recognises this is a small planet isolated in a gigantic universe? Where are we growing to?
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Isolated
Paradigm
Gigantic
Presented
Recognises
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