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Top 30 Matt Berninger Quotes (2025 Update)

Matt Berninger Quote: “Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”

1. “Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”

— Matt Berninger

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Matt Berninger Quote: “You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.”

2. “You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.”

3. “Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience – in a good and bad way – but it’s the only place I can go to feel comfortable.”

4. “Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience – in a good and bad way – but it’s the only place I can go to feel comfortable.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “A person with grace is somebody who’s socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.”

5. “A person with grace is somebody who’s socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.”

6. “A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.”

7. “The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.”

8. “I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.”

9. “I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “The song ‘Humiliation’ is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.”

10. “The song ‘Humiliation’ is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “It’s not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It’s odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.”

11. “It’s not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It’s odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it’s nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they’re not all real, they’re weird amalgamations of reality.”

12. “I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it’s nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they’re not all real, they’re weird amalgamations of reality.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I’m not saying I’m not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.”

13. “I’m not saying I’m not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.”

14. “My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I’ve never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.”

15. “I’ve never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I don’t want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That’s what was at stake.”

16. “I don’t want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That’s what was at stake.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.”

17. “A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I’m trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can’t work in the house because she’s trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I’m literally trying to record in the tent.”

18. “I’m trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can’t work in the house because she’s trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I’m literally trying to record in the tent.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don’t really go to parties anymore either. I’ll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.”

19. “Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don’t really go to parties anymore either. I’ll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don’t have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.”

20. “Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don’t have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.”

21. “I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.”

22. “I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “Lyrics need to be good, but they don’t need to be obvious right away.”

23. “Lyrics need to be good, but they don’t need to be obvious right away.”

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Matt Berninger Quote: “Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we’ve arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn’t matter.”

24. “Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we’ve arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn’t matter.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I’m trying to write a feeling, not a story. I’m not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.”

25. “I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I’m trying to write a feeling, not a story. I’m not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.”

26. “It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I’m doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody’s trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.”

27. “I’m doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody’s trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I actually don’t go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.”

28. “I actually don’t go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I can never turn a tour into a vacation.”

29. “I can never turn a tour into a vacation.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.”

30. “Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.”

— Matt Berninger

Matt Berninger Quote: “I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.”

31. “I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.”

— Matt Berninger

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