Top 43 quotes by Matt Berninger

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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

Source: the-talks.com

Trying , Feelings , Writing

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

Forget , Like You , Forget Everything

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

Source: the-talks.com

Important , Stories , Writing

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

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

Source: the-talks.com

Darkness , Personality

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

Source: the-talks.com

Reality , Littles , Wine

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

Kids , Parent , Dark

I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.
Matt Berninger

Character , Real , Nice

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.
Matt Berninger

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Years , Home , Writing

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

Source: the-talks.com

Thinking , Rocks , Caring

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

Source: the-talks.com

Ifs , Song , Connected

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

Want , Body , Daughter

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

"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. Source

Wind , Brother , Frustrated

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

Source: the-talks.com

Wine , Song , Drinking

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

Source: the-talks.com

Rocks , Party , Clubs