Matt Nathanson Quotes

#1. I feel vulnerable a lot interacting with human beings and being honest with people, and if I read their energy kind of not getting or shutting me down or this feeling of where we're not connecting, that's kind of a vulnerable place for me.

Matt Nathanson

#2. I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

Matt Nathanson

#3. You're a murderer.'
'So are you' she said.
'No, I kill. You murder.'
'What's the difference?'
'I kill murderers.

Dean Koontz

#4. I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

Matt Nathanson

#5. When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

Matt Nathanson

#6. It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

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#7. It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

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#8. Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important.

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#9. I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

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#10. Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

Matt Nathanson

#11. Music is an experience. It's alive. Untamable. You can try to plan it out, pin it down, and bend it to your will, but it can't really be done.

Caisey Quinn

#12. I miss the sound of your voice, the loudest thing in my head

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#13. I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

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#14. When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

John McLaughlin

#15. People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.

Alix Kates Shulman

#16. I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to

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#17. Every day is the start of something beautiful.

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#18. Come on get higher,
Loosen my lips ...
Faith and desire and the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard,
and drown me in love ..

Matt Nathanson

#19. The impostor syndrome. I know it well. Inside every self-assured professional lives a frightened neurotic who prays that he can somehow succeed before his clients discover the fraud. It's the guilty secret that drives us all.

Richard North Patterson

#20. I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.

Matt Nathanson

#21. It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When

Madeleine L'Engle

#22. No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

Ilsa J. Bick

#23. The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

Matt Nathanson

#24. I would be heavenly if baby you'd just rescue me now

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#25. I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in

Matt Nathanson