Matisyahu Quotes

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

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.

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine

There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

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.

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

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.

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.

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

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.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

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.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.