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I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
Matisyahu
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Matisyahu
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 30
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Westchester
Pennsylvania
Matthew Paul Miller
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The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
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What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.
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My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.
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My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.
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The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
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People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.
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You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
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It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.
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Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
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Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.
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We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.
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Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
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Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
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Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
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We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.
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Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
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The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.
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I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
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At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
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