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" Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous. "
Matt Bellamy
Moving
Also
Opera
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" I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well with that dance-type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar, and I've always wanted to find that. "
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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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" 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 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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" I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly. "
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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'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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Life
" 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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" You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom. "
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Stagnation
" I always go for walks in the countryside. "
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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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" Money and success haven't really changed my beliefs or opinions over the years. When I was growing up, my mum and dad split when I was 13 or 14, during the early-Nineties recession. At that time, my dad went bankrupt, and it played a huge part in it all at home. "
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Home
" 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. "
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Dark
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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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Think
Reflection
Life
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Live
Believe
Influence
" 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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Guitar
You
Same
" I can understand why people are bad. "
Matt Bellamy
People
Understand
Why
" 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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Think
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" For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling. "
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Time
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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!' "
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Life
Sorrow
" The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing. "
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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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Family
" The universe, in a big bang mode, is still expanding, which means it's cooling down, and evolution seems to be going against this; we're almost battling it. That led me on to a more creative, philosophical way of thinking, which is what led into influencing some of the songs, which is, maybe this is what our struggle is. "
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Down
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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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Now
" As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums. "
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Rock
" 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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Win
" 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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" 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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" I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags. "
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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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