Matt Malley Quotes
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I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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All my songs are where I am.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.
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I've been playing music most of my life.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.