Matty Healy Quotes

Matty Healy

Profession : Singer

Birth : April 8, 1989

I don't love the running machine. I'm not a gym dude.

Matty Healy

I'm always just listening to old emo, really, let's be honest.

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The only thing I have the ability to do is make positive things. That's what I'm trying to put my energy into.

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That's my duty. Just make powerful art.

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Some days I'm cool with getting canceled every week. Some days I'm not cool with it.

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When I was growing up, the rich melodic music was Brandy, Whitney, SWV, TLC.

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Ambient music is my favorite art form because there's no interface. It just commands you how to feel. There's no suggestion of lyrics or visuals, it just tells you, in its own abstract way. You feel it, and it moves you.

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There's a real earnestness to country music that I appreciate.

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It's exhausting to be me.

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I'm an exhausting person to be around.

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I know that I'm not as smart as I think I am.

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I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets.

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I believe that if you are a young person and you're not representative of your government - if you're a left-leaning person in an oppressive place - the only common understanding you're going to get is through art and culture.

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Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles, whatever. They're great pop stars, but they - on purpose - don't say anything. They purposefully don't stand for things apart from you know, 'Oh, masculinity: no.' Or 'racism: no' - d'you know what I mean?

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In a world where people want answers immediately, I'm behaving a lot of the time in ways that contradict certain people's beliefs, or normally conservative beliefs.

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I'll never compromise my values.

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I don't listen to rock bands.

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The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it. And songs that I love are not songs by rock bands, unless they're old classics.

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We're the Tumblr band, really, in every sense.

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I'm not scared of anything. And I'm not hiding anything.

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