Matt Shultz Quotes

#1. I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

Matt Shultz

#2. If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

Jane Yolen

#3. Of course we get hurt in love.
We have this immense need to immerse
violence into love.
As if a love that doesn't devastate is less of a verb.
As if a rain that doesn't drown wouldn't make the trees grow.

Akif Kichloo

#4. This floor is a cold floor. I should get up off this floor. There's still a fat fellow over there, and he's pointing a pistol at my heart.

Salmon Rushdie

#5. It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

Matt Shultz

#6. We all have our weaknesses."
"I know," said Iko. "Mine is shoes.

Marissa Meyer

#7. Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.

Matt Shultz

#8. The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

Matt Shultz

#9. I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

Matt Shultz

#10. If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

James Spader

#11. Governor Chris Christie says if he's president, he will crack down on the sale of marijuana. However, that was before he was told it also comes in a brownie.

Conan O'Brien

#12. A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

Robert Barron

#13. Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

Christopher Moore

#14. You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

Matt Shultz

#15. Look too on this poor planet of ours,
Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,
Evil contending with good from its birth,
Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,
Ah! what infinities circle us here,
Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#16. It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

Ludwig Von Mises

#17. The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply about having adventures, one day at a time, one song at a time.

Bruce Pavitt

#18. See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

Melina Marchetta

#19. I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

Matt Shultz

#20. Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Baron De Montesquieu

#21. It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.

Matt Shultz

#22. He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next. He was at war now, his loyalty tested at every turn.

Paula McLain

#23. Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

Victor Sperandeo