Matt Berninger Quotes

• You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

  Matt Berninger

  Forget Everything, Forget, Like You

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• I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story. I'm not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.

  Matt Berninger

  Escribir, Sentimientos, Intentar

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

  Matt Berninger

  Coffee, Flower, Weather

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• There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.

  Matt Berninger

  Book, Heart, Emotional

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• It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

  Matt Berninger

  Escritura, Importante, Historias

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

  Matt Berninger

  Personality, Darkness

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Drinking, Wine

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

  Matt Berninger

  Wine, Reality, Littles

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

  Matt Berninger

  Kids, Dark, Parent

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• I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.

  Matt Berninger

  Caring, Thinking, Rocks

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Connected, Ifs

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

  Matt Berninger

  Canción, Real, Escritura

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• Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

  Matt Berninger

  Party, Rocks, Clubs

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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• Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.

  Matt Berninger

  Sadness, Feelings, Overwhelmed

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

  Matt Berninger

  People, Community, Together

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• I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

  Matt Berninger

  Daughter, Body, Want

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• Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.

  Matt Berninger

  Brother, Wind, Frustrated

  "Matt and Tom Berninger: 'I don't have anything good on the National and I just have myself really drunk'". Interview with David Daley, www.salon.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Una persona con gracia es alguien que tiene gracia social o es una persona con clase, pero a veces te sientes todo lo contrario, y te sientes un imbécil y un perdedor y un bicho raro.

  Matt Berninger

  Opposites, Grace, Loser

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• La canción "Humiliation" trata de lo que pasaría si, fuera de una cena o algo así, me volara un misil teledirigido en la piscina. Qué manera tan vergonzosa de morir.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Party, What If

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• When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Writing, Editing

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

  Matt Berninger

  Canción, Escribir, Largo

  "The National". Interview with Dennis Lehane, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2017.

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• I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

  Matt Berninger

  Thinking, Guy, Balance

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• We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

  Matt Berninger

  Canción, Escribir, Largo

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

  Matt Berninger

  Fun, Focus, Having Fun

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Beach, Writing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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