Matthew Sweet Quotes

• You know that they’re not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

  Matthew Sweet

• 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

• 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

• They said, ‘If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?’ So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there’s one person who doesn’t like flying as much as me, it’s Brian.

  Matthew Sweet

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back – you know, how your past gets away from you. It’s grown so much.

  Matthew Sweet

• More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don’t like my music (laughs).

  Matthew Sweet

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music – that weird otherworldly vibe – all these elements got onto the record.

  Matthew Sweet

• 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 (23)

Birth:	6th October, 1964
Nationality:	-
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

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