122 Quotes by Matisyahu

Most of my life wasn’t about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

I don’t think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn’t have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

I can’t choose the most meaningful song that I’ve written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It’s not like a day job that I leave and go home. It’s who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

Everyone’s right or wrong, Everyone’s got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

When there’s light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there’s no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

Reggae music isn’t Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn’t inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There’s Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

We’re so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture – and that’s what this world is – is this blend of different things.