Matthew Sweet Quotes

• I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

  Matthew Sweet

  Sadness, Blow, Past

  Song: Nothing Lasts, 1991

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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

  Success, Fun, Records

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• Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

  Matthew Sweet

  Lying, Expression, Burning

  Song: Smog Moon, Album: 100% Fun

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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

  Couple, Buddhism, Years

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• In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

  Matthew Sweet

  Lying, Reality, Trying

  Song: Sick Of Myself, Album: 100% Fun

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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

  Birthday, Summer, Party

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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

  Mind Your Own Business, Curious, Songwriting

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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

  Names, Genius, Planes

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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

  Birthday, Party, Dykes

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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

  Japan, Play, People

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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

  Waiting, Labels, Records

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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

  Success, Girlfriend, Fun

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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

  Art, Appreciate, Special

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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

  Creativity, Giving, Would Be

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• You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

  Matthew Sweet

  Art, Media, Laughing

  Song: I Almost Forgot, Album: 100% Fun

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• They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

  Matthew Sweet

  Art, Media, Lines

  Song: Smog Moon, Album: 100% Fun

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• I believe in nature instead of God.

  Matthew Sweet

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

  "Is there a God?". Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2000.

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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

  Couple, Piano, Play

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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

  Success, Perspective, Records

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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

  Growing Up, College, Imagination

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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

  Years, Three, Labels

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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

  Home, Thinking, Feelings

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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

  Letting Go, Fun, Nice

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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

  Men, Land, Killing

  Song: Holy War, 1991

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