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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. "
Matt Bellamy
Dark
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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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" 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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" 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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Down
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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. "
Matt Bellamy
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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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Love
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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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Away
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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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Turned
Down
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" I always go for walks in the countryside. "
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Always
Countryside
Go
" I can understand why people are bad. "
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People
Understand
Why
" Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music. "
Matt Bellamy
Music
Entertainment
Rock
" As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums. "
Matt Bellamy
Band
You
Rock
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Done
Story
Now
" 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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Rock
Age
Change
" In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose. "
Matt Bellamy
Purpose
Long
Intelligence
" For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling. "
Matt Bellamy
First Time
Time
Energy
" A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error. "
Matt Bellamy
Perfect
Guitar
Never
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Back
Everyone
Gambling
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Dancing
Black
Create
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Thinking
Freedom
Life
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Music
Soul
You
" You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom. "
Matt Bellamy
Breeds
Evolve
Stagnation
" Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it. "
Matt Bellamy
Life
Small
Me
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Child
You
Ideas
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Growing Up
Money
Home
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Think
Reflection
Life
" 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
" Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous. "
Matt Bellamy
Moving
Also
Opera
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Wisdom
Artist
Life
" I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags. "
Matt Bellamy
Obvious
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" I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly. "
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Nature
Things
Songwriter