Mat Kearney Quotes
I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
-
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
-
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
-
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
-
There's no regrets for me.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
-
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
-
I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
-
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
-
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
-
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
-
I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
-
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
-
I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
-
What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
-
When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls.
-
Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.
-
My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.
-
I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
