Matthew Bellamy quotes

“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.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Music Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn’t go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn’t exist.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Heart Quotes #Focus Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Communication Quotes #Language Quotes #Form Quotes

“I prefer music that invents a universe.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Universe Quotes

“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”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Atheist Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Queens Quotes #Band Quotes #World Quotes

“When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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“I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Running Quotes #Wall Quotes #Play Quotes

“I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. [] It’s an unedited version of who you are. For me there’s something pure about that”
-- Matthew Bellamy

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#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Stage Quotes

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

“If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.”

“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin

“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

“As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.”

“Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”