Matty Healy Quotes

Matty Healy

Profession : Singer

Birth : April 8, 1989

Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.

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My favorite art, or whatever you want to call it, is art that makes you feel personally addressed.

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I don't like Jeremy Corbyn, I don't like Boris Johnson, I didn't trust either of them.

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People who overshare because they think it's endearing can be quite exhausting. Self-deprecation is fine if it's real but anything performative is annoying.

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The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.

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The Malaysian authorities... briefly imprisoned us.

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If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists should be judged by the danger and inconvenience that they face for doing so, not by the rewards they receive for parroting consensus.

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Even here in America, there's loads of states which uphold illiberal laws that restrict people's bodily autonomy and gender expression.

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Well, I don't really listen to The 1975 when I'm chilling at home.

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Nostalgia is beautiful.

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I'm never not going to have my work, because I am my work. I don't have any removal from The 1975 and me, and I don't find that complicated.

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I've been writing about my life and my ideas since before I was even an adult! So you know, if you ask a gymnast who's been doing it since they're two, 'How did you do that?' They're like, 'I don't really know. I don't think about it.' That's me!

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I'm not interested in reactive statements. I'm interested in living in an environment and then reflecting what that's like.

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I don't feel the need to be present in the culture unless I have a song out.

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To be a type of band that plays a type of music - I just see it as cosplay.

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I don't like time-stamping my work too much. If you're putting it too much in the zeitgeist, then you can't get away from it.

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The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.

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People want a real-time relationship now. When I saw Cardi B communicating with her audience on Instagram with zero mediation, I knew everything had changed.

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If fidelity really mattered, 'Loveless' wouldn't be one of the best records of all time.

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To try to understand things by slapping an ideology on it is an old-fashioned method.

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