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"Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare."
"You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them."
"Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other."
"As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not."
"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."
"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."
"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing."
"I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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