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" I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!' "
Matt Bellamy
Death
Life
Sorrow
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" I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away. "
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" There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music. "
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" I always go for walks in the countryside. "
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" Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music. "
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" Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us? "
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" I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us. "
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" Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work. "
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" Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back. "
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" I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place. "
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" I experienced the sharp end of a tough time, living with a single parent, my mum, and she was really struggling to get a job. These are the things that form your views in life. They are established when you are growing up and being raised. That stuff doesn't really go away; that stays with you. "
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" The best band in the world is Queen, definitely. "
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" In the U.S., the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the Right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism. "
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" This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two. "
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" I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done. "
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" When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done. "
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" Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world. "
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" I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's a rare kind of thing to have that level of wisdom. And his lyrics are just astounding; everything in life is inside his lyrics. "
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Life
" As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments. "
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" I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly. "
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" In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose. "
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" I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement. "
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" 'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular basis. "
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" I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music. "
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" I don't totally buy or believe the paradigm that's constantly presented to us and the financial news is obsessed with, which is growth. There seems to be this paradigm which is: There has to be growth. I'm watching it and thinking, am I the only one who recognises this is a small planet isolated in a gigantic universe? Where are we growing to? "
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" I've spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there - falling in love, stuff like that. "
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" I can understand why people are bad. "
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" I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life. "
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" People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music. "
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" I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me. "
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" Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has. "
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