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Matthew Sweet Quotes
Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now its grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but Im not someone that thinks everything should stop growing. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
Creativity is much better when its free. Someone can take it and sell it if thats what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
First off, I dont want anyone to think Im this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here thats made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
I figured if the plane goes down, Ill go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
I got better money playing live and some publishing money - I still get checks from publishing. But the label was always recouping advances. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
I have more perspective now, and am happier now. Its not that I dont 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. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
I think of it as pretend freedom. It was a way to trick my mind into not feeling so pressured. I felt like I had become numb to that process. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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 - thats special if youre an artist. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilsons birthday party. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
It wasnt 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. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably dont like my music (laughs). - Matthew Sweet Quotes
My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. Its grown so much. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
My management always laughs at me when I say I felt all these pressures all these years. They think that I fought everything from the very beginning. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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. Theyll be nice and get into it and have fun. And it was the first record I made at my home studio. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasnt a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
There are things that I value now that I didnt when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
They said, If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it? So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If theres one person who doesnt like flying as much as me, its Brian. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
Things are going to change in this business. Look at how well Bright Eyes has done on Saddle Creek. No ones done anything like that before. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didnt understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
You know that theyre not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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Group Growing Grown Guess Have Here Home
Huge Indie Japan Just Label Length Living
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