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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. "
Matt Bellamy
Turned
Down
Many
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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. "
Matt Bellamy
Growing Up
Money
Home
" 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? "
Matt Bellamy
Rest
People
Win
" I always go for walks in the countryside. "
Matt Bellamy
Always
Countryside
Go
" The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing. "
Matt Bellamy
Become
Good
Guitar
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Empathy
Hope
People
" I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly. "
Matt Bellamy
Nature
Things
Songwriter
" I can understand why people are bad. "
Matt Bellamy
People
Understand
Why
" I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags. "
Matt Bellamy
Obvious
Think
Records
" For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling. "
Matt Bellamy
First Time
Time
Energy
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Rock
Age
Change
" 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
" I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement. "
Matt Bellamy
Concentration
Being
Family
" I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music. "
Matt Bellamy
Only
Say
Years
" As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums. "
Matt Bellamy
Band
You
Rock
" I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place. "
Matt Bellamy
Think
Better
World
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Down
Go
Me
" There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music. "
Matt Bellamy
Some
Elements
Music
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Away
Think
Intelligence
" 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
" 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. "
Matt Bellamy
Conspiracy
Down
Forward
" When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to. "
Matt Bellamy
People
Think
Reading
" 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
" Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music. "
Matt Bellamy
Music
Entertainment
Rock
" 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
" 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
Kind
Music
" 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? "
Matt Bellamy
Thinking
Growth
Financial
" 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'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
" The best band in the world is Queen, definitely. "
Matt Bellamy
Best
Queen
Definitely