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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"
"You multiply your life when you invest it."
"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
"The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed."
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
"You play the game to the end. That's how it works, play to the end."
"We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions."
Explore more quotes by Matthew Sweet
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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)."
"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."
"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."
"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
"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."
"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."
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