Matthew Bellamy quotes

Matthew Bellamy is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and pianist of the rock band Muse. His energetic stage presence and virtuosic musical skills have earned him worldwide recognition. He is celebrated for his innovative songwriting and powerful performances. Here are 26 of his quotes:

I prefer music that invents a universe. (Matthew Bellamy)
We take life seriously, but life's too short to take too seriously. That's where bouncy castles come in. View quote
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Don't waste your time оr time will waste you. View quote
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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. View quote
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We were all off our faces on mushrooms when we recorded Plug In Baby... There was this big field next to the recording studio filled with them. So we ate them all. I don't know what we were doing, but we all ended up naked in a jacuzzi and I went deaf in one ear from falling asleep in the sauna... View quote
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The schooling system we have in the Western world is crazy – you're taken away from your parents at your most impressionable age and fed a load of bullshit and lies manipulated to make you think that the way we live in the West is stable and moral, when really it's neither. You come out of school with a one-track mind based on financial success; you're encouraged to become enslaved to the banking system. In school, I always felt, ‘Something's not right here' and I'm starting to find out what it is. Being outside of the norm gives you freedom of thought and that's something being suppressed in school and the media. If you have freedom of thought you get labeled as a crazy person or someone strange. View quote
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The differential between the bubble we live in - which is ‘ordinary life' - and the reality out there is almost as heavy as what is being depicted in a film like ‘the Matrix'. It could make you puke to make that step towards finding out what's really going on. View quote
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists. View quote
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Often we'll verge on embarrassing territory, a certain over-the-topness. But maybe that's just trying to unveil something that's inside all of us. View quote
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What I know of this world is what my senses have told me. View quote
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I think people see me as slightly ‘out there', but I think that's a good place to be. In the world we live in I'd rather be out of the ordinary than ordinary because to be ordinary is to be part of a system that is very corrupt. (Matthew Bellamy)
We sometimes go to fancy dress shops and stock up on masks and lighting and novelty items... It makes it a bit more social when everyone's dressed up... View quote
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When you're in a bar having a beer, before you know it you're talking about conspiracy theories and alien abductions and all sorts of weird stuff and some people print that as if I'm making some kind of serious statement. View quote
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Paris Hilton [came] to the LA show, too. But she left during Knights of Cydonia, which is the first song on the set. If we're offending Paris Hilton we must be doing something right. View quote
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If you extracted the bass drum and the guitar and the microphone and put me in a lonesome room at certain moments in the set I'd look like an embarrassing screaming maniac. View quote
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Music is a matter of emotion. View quote
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I think i'm crap. I'm a crap guitar player. I'm really not very good. And i thought I was a good singer until I met Coldplay. That guy's got a real voice. He can sing. View quote
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I think the way I am onstage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. If you're doing well you're tapping into things that you're unable to express in normal life – deeper feelings, more intense emotions and things that are not acceptable in society, maybe. When you're being frisked in an airport you want to say, "Fuck off, don't touch me, you cunt.” You can't do that in real life because you'd probably get locked away, but you can say that in a song. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that. View quote
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(Madonna) will probably be on her knees giving me a blowjob with three of her mates one day but I'll have to sell ten million records first and have a body like Ricky Martin. View quote
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You could be my unintended choice To live my life extended. You could be the one I'll always love. You could be the one who listens To my deepest inquisitions. You could be the one I'll always love. View quote
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Interviewer: Who do you think is the coolest woman of all time? Matthew: Mary,mother of God... she got pregnant and convinced everyone she was still a virgin. (Matthew Bellamy)
Interviewer: What would you do if you are the only man left on earth after the End of The World? Matthew: I'd go looking for a woman... If I wouldn't find any, I think I'll be satisfied with Dominic. View quote
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Interviewer: What's the biggest misconception people have about MUSE? Matthew: That we're intelligent. View quote
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Offending people is better than no reaction at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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