Matt Bellamy Quotes
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Paris Hilton came to our LA show. She left during the first song on the set. If we’re offending Paris Hilton we must be doing something right.
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There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
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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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Our DNA was mixed with a species from outer space and apes; we’re a mixture of the two.
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I watched someone shot a cow in the bollocks.
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The concept of democracy is a fucking joke. Rock’s supposed to shake things up and say, ‘Fuck that, this is shit, man! Let’s burn down the Houses of Parliament!’
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The buzz comes from getting extremely nervous before we go on [stage]. I'm really nervous now, already. I think that when you get to half an hour before, the nerves turn into adrenalin. I'm nervous all day pretty much. It turns into pure excitement, as opposed to just shitting yourself...
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I had a girlfriend for a number of years who was a proper farm girl. I used to go out and watch her younger brother shoot cows in the bollocks.
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I’m scared of legs.
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I'd like to build up a cult and lead them all to a mass suicide.
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Apparently you’re not allowed to have helicopters fly over big crowds in case they fall out of the sky and start mincing up. Which is fair enough, I suppose.
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Absolution is an album about relationships between you and the other things, whether its you and God, or you and your girlfriend...
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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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We hired a bouncy castle in Las Vegas for a party and decided to dress up as aliens. People definitely lost it there.
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Often we'll verge on embarrassing territory, a certain over-the-topness. But maybe that's just trying to unveil something that's inside all of us.
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The differential between the bubble we live in — which is ‘ordinary life’ — and the reality out there is almost as heavy as what is being depicted in a film like ‘the Matrix’. It could make you puke to make that step towards finding out what’s really going on.
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Most bands release a live album when they become old and fat. We wanted to be different.
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I find her music completely offensive for a start and I'm sure our fans do as well.