Quotes by Matthew Sweet - Page 1

I believe in nature instead of God.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
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Wavering and burning like a golden lie.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Burning
Expression
Lying
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They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Art
Lines
Media
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You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Art
Laughing
Media
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In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Lying
Reality
Trying
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I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Blow
Past
Sadness
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I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Men
Killing
Land
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Connected
Genius
Names
Planes
Great Always Will
Figured
Great Genius
Plane
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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Birthday
Smile
Birthday Party
Dinner
Dykes
Party
Plans
Summer
Wilson
Dyke
Van
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I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Success
Fun
Having Fun
Radio
Records
Studios
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When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Appeals
Commercialization
Japan
Mass
People
Play
Popular Culture
Culture Me People
Popular
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There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Buddhism
Couple
Years
Couple Years
Zen
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More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Labels
Records
Music Myself More
Laughs
Signed
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I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Birthday
Smile
Birthday Party
Brian
Dykes
Party
Wilson
Rare
Dyke
Spoke
There And Then
Third
Van
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It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Labels
Records
Three
Years
Period
Label
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It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Curious
Mind Your Own Business
Music Business
My Own
Songwriting
Business Music Never
Leave
Explore
Influenced
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They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Brian
Eight
First Class
Flying
Me Will Person
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He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Elements
Folk Music
Weird
Added
Classical
Folk
Helped
Record
Onto
Vibe
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First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Japan
Length
Records
Cheap
Effect
Trick
Huge Thing
Indie
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I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Art
Appreciate
Special
Different Level
Japanese
Seriously
Title
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Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Success
Bigger
Fun
Girlfriend
Percent
Records
Life Success Reality
Lots
Sold
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Imagination
College
Growing Up
Nebraska
Openness
Record Stores
Small Town
Stores
Fosters
Influenced
Liberal
Lincoln
Rural
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So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Fun
Japan
Letting Go
Nice
Home World Me
Be Nice
Have Fun
Helped
Let Go
Studio
Tensions
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When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Labels
Music Industry
Records
Waiting
Time Music New
Time Music Waiting
Contract
Emerge
Label
New Kind
Record Label
Sold
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My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Couple Times
Grown
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Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Home
Feelings
Mixed Feelings
Thinking
Drive
Direction
Grown
Guess
Mile
Mixed
Thinks
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I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Success
Bucks
Perspective
Records
Happier
Lower
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He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Couple
Piano
Play
Therapy
Thorns
Two Weeks
Accordion
Weeks
Couple Times
Organ
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Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.
Matthew Sweet / Musician
Creativity
Giving
Standpoint
Would Be
Sell
Label
Scenario
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