You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things. Matt Corby More Quotes by Matt Corby More Quotes From Matt Corby There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first. Matt Corby never-settle cancer differences If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine. Matt Corby real should conversation You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful. Matt Corby heartfelt powerful stupid If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it. Matt Corby gist embodiment working-together It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do? Matt Corby hard ifs knows I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then. Matt Corby moments can-do thinking No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do. Matt Corby might giving mean Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it. Matt Corby artist song ideas A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth. Matt Corby depth simple stuff I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people. Matt Corby mind want people I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it. Matt Corby matter want song LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy. Matt Corby emotional keys cities That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything. Matt Corby interesting-things mean interesting That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own. Matt Corby weird-things If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist. Matt Corby labels artist order
