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Top 20 Matthew Sweet Quotes (2025 Update)

Matthew Sweet Quote: “They’re not your words, but you’re reciting the lines.”

1. “They’re not your words, but you’re reciting the lines.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.”

2. “I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “In a world that’s ugly and a lie, it’s hard to even want to try.”

3. “In a world that’s ugly and a lie, it’s hard to even want to try.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say ‘OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They’ll be nice and get into it and have fun.’ And it was the first record I made at my home studio.”

4. “So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say ‘OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They’ll be nice and get into it and have fun.’ And it was the first record I made at my home studio.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around ’92 and ’96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”

5. “Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around ’92 and ’96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “It wasn’t so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.”

6. “It wasn’t so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It’s not that I don’t want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.”

7. “I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It’s not that I don’t want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “There are things that I value now that I didn’t when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.”

8. “There are things that I value now that I didn’t when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I’m not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there’s a god who would understand.”

9. “I’m not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there’s a god who would understand.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “Wavering and burning like a golden lie.”

10. “Wavering and burning like a golden lie.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I figured if the plane goes down, I’ll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.”

11. “I figured if the plane goes down, I’ll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”

12. “The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously – that’s special if you’re an artist.”

13. “I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously – that’s special if you’re an artist.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.”

14. “I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn’t a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.”

15. “The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn’t a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “You’re laughing at everything that’s bringing me down.”

16. “You’re laughing at everything that’s bringing me down.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.”

17. “When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it’s grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I’m not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.”

18. “Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it’s grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I’m not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I believe in nature instead of God.”

19. “I believe in nature instead of God.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson’s birthday party.”

20. “I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson’s birthday party.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”

21. “It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn’t understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.”

22. “When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn’t understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “Creativity is much better when it’s free. Someone can take it and sell it if that’s what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living – that would be the best scenario.”

23. “Creativity is much better when it’s free. Someone can take it and sell it if that’s what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living – that would be the best scenario.”

— Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet Quote: “He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.”

24. “He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.”

— Matthew Sweet

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